IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Glacier like Object Storage teiring in Tape. With compatibility with S3 API/Policies

    A growing trend I ha e noticed in my domain is data ownership and residency. However, costs exponentially rise as data has grown due to a lack of understanding of what data is being stored (partially due o GDPR which protects against data being vi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

    TSM Audit library should not require setting the library "offline"

    TSM Library Manager often loses information about the location of a cartridge in the library.Most of all cases happen after a Drive-, or Robot-mechanics failure.TSM Librarymanager then demands an "Audit Library".To do that "audit", we need to stop...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

    Add a Utility node with FC cards

    Add a Utility node with fc cards, so we can deliver a full IBM Storage solution with IBM Storage Archive, without having to involve Power brand.A utility node with enogh memory and fc card would fulfil this gap in our options when building a Scale...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Planned for future release

    Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

    Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Restore more than 1 VM at the time with the tdpve web gui

    Restore Multiple VMS at ones from the web Gui from the same job ibm spectrum protect virtual environments
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Customize At Risk intervals to reflect real environment

    In order to have the Operations Center reflect correctly the risk status of Spectrum Protect nodes we should be able to inform accuratedly when the backups really run. Some clients, for instance, have nodes that run backups only on weekdays, so th...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale / ESS soft lockup issue

    I need help on this requirements for the system using Power9 AC922 servers and ESS 3000 storages. The customer has faced soft lockup issues with their applications running on AC922 which Spectrum Scale client runs on as well. They are definitely t...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    ESS call home for disk failures should include the RG\disk name in the IBM case title

    In ESS call home for disk failures, when a case is created the case title is very generic and reports an error number 'Error Code: DSK00001'. Problem The challenge is that when disks fail, it is difficult to relate a specific disk failure to an IB...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    parallel session when using node replication from tape

    Need support for parallel session when using node replication from tape.When for example run a RMAN Backup with 4 session to tape, we can replicate the data with 4 sessions over 4 tape and 4 drives to other side. With Node Replication only one ses...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Possibility to deploy/update Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Update of Client Management Services (CMS) using Spectrum Protect Operation Center is not possible.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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