IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

    Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    CES S3 Support for "Atomic Conditional Write" (compareAndSet)

    The current CES S3 protocol does not support an S3 compareAndSet operation. This is a requirement for attaching ElasticStack to the CES S3 protocol nodes. Attachment of ElasticStack to IBM Storage Scale using CES S3 would enable ElasticStack to st...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration
    210 VOTE

    mmrestorefs into REST API.

    The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

    Add monitoring for the "phy error counters" that are currently displayed in the tssastools log, and which can only be verified via a snap

    We've encountered several issues related to disk problems and crashes. After opening several cases, in one of them (TS022401811) , we have been notified about a significant increase in these counters. This problem wasn't being reported anywhere by...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Include more useful data into the Call home automatically collected data

    Hello, I am exploring whether it will be possible to include more useful data and sufficient data into the FTDC data that is being collected upon call home creation. Currently the information within those files is pretty limited and not sufficient...
    28 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

    Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    REST API call for the "mmexpelnode -l" command

    Hello. I suggest creating a REST API call equivalent to the "mmexpelnode -l" command. We monitor the environment via the REST API, and it would be useful to monitor the nodes that have been expelled from the cluster to trigger specific alerts for ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

    Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

    Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

    We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
    10 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

    ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

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