IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Enhanced Security and Usability for Trace Files

    We would like to propose the following two enhancements for trace files generated by IBM Storage Protect. 1. Option to Exclude File Names from Trace Files The names of files being backed up may contain information from which confidential or privac...
    about 12 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    support separate storage network for FDF

    support separate storage network for FDF
    15 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    IBMi power HA support for systems with iASP when using FlashSystem PBHA

    Currently PBHA is supported in systems with ASP but not included for iASP. Support needed for this iASP deployment with PBHA replication
    about 9 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Add a hierarchical GUI view for volume groups and their thin clones

    There is no easy way in the FlashSystem GUI to see the association between a volume group and its thin clones in a hierarchical way. The CLi allows this with "lsvolumegrouppopulation -filtervalue source_volume_group_name=VG_NAME"
    about 13 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    TS7700 Cache Encryption recovery key (text string)

    Currently, if TS7700 cache disk is encrypted using an external key server, does not support to generate the encryption recovery key (text string) in Storage GUI. The option is greyed out. I believe it is restricted by Firmware to disable this opti...
    about 20 hours ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

    API integration with Qumulo Storage

    API integration with Qumulo Storage without the use of tree walk
    1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Encryption for Fusion Backup Service

    Customer is using Fusion backup service and has concern about backup encryption.Requesting support for encrypted backup support in Fusion backup service.
    1 day ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Make IP:Port binding possible

    In a split client and administrative network, Storage Protect server listens on all interfaces and IP addresses. Ideally, TCPPort would listen on the client network and TCPAdminPort only the administrative network, using IP:Port binding or NIC:Por...
    15 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Make propagating replication server details to clients (dsm.sys) optional

    We want our replication servers to remain hidden, in case of a failover restore from a replication server we can easily add these details ourselves. Currently, in case a host is compromised, a hacker can easily see that replication servers are als...
    15 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Enable SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation Support on IBM Fusion Access for SAN

    Description: IBM Fusion Access for SAN provides shared storage capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization using existing SAN infrastructure and IBM Storage Scale. However, enterprise Windows workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server Failover C...
    6 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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