IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Improve the security for S3 buckets & SPP including support for SAML authentication.

Currently many tools that implement SSO (Single Sign-on) allow the use of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) technology to raise the level of security and automate authentication with various tools. SAML is a standardized way of telling ext...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Operation Center - Logs and alerts for attempted or executed Restricted commands, new admin creation and change of password

System: Operation Center - all platformsActor: User needing new feature Description: List of potential destructive/restricted commands attempted and executed in last 24 hrs in alert section. Also, a mechanism to send email alerts each time restric...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Configure Eligible for log backup for SQL-database model to yes

I was told that the deployment of the SQL databases is done using the model-database. While every database will be implemented in roll-forward mode also the model database is configured to roll-forward.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

List and stop long running commands

Some Spectrum Scale commands can take a long time to run, such as mmapplypolicy, mmrestripefs, mmecheckquota. These might be run manually, or started by cron a batch system, or a callback. But sometimes, once started, there is a need to stop the c...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
8 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Expand TPI to more actions

With the new TPI feature it is not possible to delete safeguarded snapshots. We would very much like the feature expanded to include operations such as deleting regular datastores in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. And before you say "ju...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

DS8000 SGC Monitoring, Reporting and Management with Manual and Auto Control

We are utilizing Safeguarded Copy across all of our Production environments. As the capability grows, so do the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. Regarding changes in capacity needs based on host activity or change in algorithm of...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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