IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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TS4500 media end-of-life monitoring

LTO and 3592 (Jaguar) media have a limited lifetime based on some specific internal measurements like number of loads, number of times completely written/read. The drive posts an alert once one of these internal thresholds have been crossed. At a ...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 6 Delivered

Different email sender and contact email address for Spec V products

To have different email sender and customer contact email address in the callhome settings.(this is possible in FlashSystem A9000/R - but not in SpecV products)
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus - Office365 support needed

Office 365 is for 4Q18/1H19 on roadmap, support needed in Q42018customer has Office 365 in place and need local backup, if Protect Plus will not be available in Q418 he will look at CommVault
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Delivered

Public REST API For Storage Insights

Client would like Storage Insights to include a Restful API - similar to the one included in Spectrum Control.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 6 Delivered

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 9 Delivered

essclient.properties file activity

SMF records show that this property file is being read circa 100M times per day, driving high I/O rates and CPU activity. It doesn't make sense that a static property file should need to be read this frequently.
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s

Upper cache(Vc) and lower cache(Vcc) read, write, stage, destage and total metrics are currently only displayed in IO/s in Storage Insights. I would like to have the option of seeing this in MB/s as well.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Add back the small RPO graph on the Global Mirror Info tab

It seems the small RPO chart which used to be on the Global Mirror Info tab was removed in 6.3.8 although doesn't appear to have been publicized in the release notes. This was a very convenient immediate place to check recent RPO. Having to use th...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

make applydrivesoftware site-aware

'applydrivesoftware' should honour site-awareness, in particular in HyperSwap topologies and change its default "all in one shot" behaviour to a "paced site by site" one.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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