IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

    All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
    7 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

    in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because COS System send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Submitted

    S3 to Tape

    Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
    almost 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

    Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
    over 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 3 Under review

    Operations Center: Select multiple (but not all) servers for a report

    Currently, you can select either one or all servers for a report. It would be very helpfull if you would be able to select a subset of servers.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

    One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

    If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    Journal Based Backup Stall

    In this case, the journal database was not updating and so backups became stale until a Full Incremental was run. This request is for a monitoring alert for when the journal db does not receive any updates, perhaps in the last 24 hours.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Is a defect

    Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

    There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

    Operation Center option to only send report if there is output

    Operation Center "Configure Report" should have a checkbox to prevent sending a report if there is no output.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

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