IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Customer is asking if storage insights can track in it's log which users are accessing what data.

Required from an audit perspective to determine which employees are accessing SI and reviewing data collected by SI.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Easy access to SVC portstats needed

By architecture the SAN plays an important role for a reliable function of Spectrum Virtualize. Monitoring of SAN counters is crucial for every Administrator to get a clear picture of the health of all communications within. Even we are often faci...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Document Spectrum Fusion's CPU,Memory, and PV req's for each version

Other IBM Storage software products are publicly documenting their CPU, memory, and persistent volume sizing information. Spectrum Fusion should do this too. An example is table 2 and table 3 in this SPP support page. https://www.ibm.com/support/p...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Delivered

storwize remote mirror bitmap space in hyperswap

in a hyperswap environment with heavy overprovisioning there is a lack of bitmap space for remote copy operations inside the hyperswap. we can extent flashcopy bitmap space to 2GB, but remotecopy is shared with other features an limited to 552 MB ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SNMP V3 support for SVC

Customers are requesting that SNMP be upgraded to V3.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enable smnp test trap from SVC

Normally, when configuring snmp traps, there is a possibility to send a test trap. Such functionality does not exist in SVC.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Ability to supress IWNR4005I messages in CSM console.

In CSM 6.3.4 message IWNR4005I is logged to the console for every logon to the CSM webui. Please consider allowing the suppression of the message for particluar users or entirely.
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Backup of NSX-T network interfaces in SP for VE

Spectrum Protect for VE needs to include VMware NSX virtual networking devices in the backups of the VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infrastructure for VMware, which is configured via tagging of virtual NIC devices to a VM.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Chane email and LDAP server configuration from IP to hostname

Email and LDAP servers can only be configured by entering their IP address. In case of server lifecycle, connection fails.If hostnames (and aliases) could be configured, this wouldn't be a problem anymore.Applies to all SVC and Storwize products.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

CSM Improve DS8000 Paths Interface

I would like to propose several enhancements to how the CSM DS8000 Paths screen is displayed and managed. 1) The DS8000 Paths screen has a lot of unused space when drilled down into a storage device list of paths, on my monitors at least half of t...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

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