IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Not under consideration

    Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

    Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

    Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Automated Restore for Spectrum Protect family of products

    Spectrum Protect is lacking any functionality which can automatically verify backup copies, whether they have been created using the BA client, TDP agents or Spectrum Protect Plus. Since Cristie pulled support for SP4VE from their Recovery Simulat...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Create backupset from directory container stgpool

    Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Operations Center: Automatic PMR Creation and Support Bundle Upload

    Automated open/creation of PMR from Spectrum Protect Operations Center and upload of Support Data Collection Bundle
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Export statistics from GUI as SVG

    We are constantly asked by customers for performance data. We usually make screenshots of the graphs generated in the statistics sections of the GUI. It would be a great improvement if we could simply export the graphs as SVG (or maybe PNG). A pos...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Need larger DB2 active log file size

    While working on HADR, a DB2 specialist noted that DB2 under SP was archiving the active log at a higher than normal rate and recommended increasing the current DB2 LOGFILSIZ to make it ten (10) times larger. However, the customer was unable to ma...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    Configurable block size for tape

    We have a tape library about 50km away from the managing SP server; connected over fibre. Due to the nature of the FC protocol for tape drives (strictly serial acknowledgement) and the latency, a single data stream gets limited to around 120MBps, ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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