IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add FIPS compliance to the tape library to enable Key Manager integration with the IBM Guardium product.

    Guardium uses FIPS by default. Without FIPS compliance the Diamondback library acts as a lowest common denominator for Guardium forcibly weakening the security stance of all products using the same Guardium instance e.g. Spectrum Scale. A minimum ...
    2 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Under review

    Enable the capability of having minimum 2 or more versions of LTO Drives & Media in the one Diamondback Tape library.

    At the initial launch, the DiamondBack Tape Library was designed to have one Drive Type - LTO9 - as LTO8 was neither certified nor tested. However, expectation is to maintain a tape library for a dozen years or more - this ticks the sustainability...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    a software reset of the library should not invalidate the status of the tapes in the IOstation

    While after a powercycle of the library or opening the backdoor and removing and reinserting the IOstation, it is correct to rescan the IO station and consider all tapes to be imported, this should not be the case, when the library is instructed t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 4 Is a defect

    Missing informational event for rear door open status

    While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Allowing for hybrid connections in the same Diamondback (SAS/FC)

    Allow for customer to order a Diamondback with a hybrid of SAS and fiber channel drives. Allowing a single Diamondback to support different type of workloads/connections vs requiring two Diamondbacks to achieve this.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    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

    TSM operation center reporting issue with DB size of TSM instances in GPFS cluster

    TSM DB size was wrongly reported in operations center for instances configured in same GPFS cluster. all instances are reporting GPFS clustered file system size Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center 7.1.4
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under 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

    Operations Center Reports, provide a test button of custom SQL

    Today when creating a custom report in Operations Center the interface automatically sends sql select queries to the server to check if the work. This could be done multiple time during the time when you edit the report, that puts a lot of load on...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 0 Not under consideration

    From the GUI of "DiamondBack", monitoring the current drive's transmission speed

    Firmware : 2.9.0.4-B00.00 Hello.The customer of the equipment wants to monitor the transmission speed in real time with the GUI.I looked around the GUI to satisfy the customer, but it doesn't seem to have the functionality they want. The GUI doesn...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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