IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Need a new option to control Hyperswap of SVC/Spectrum Virtualize

System: V9000 HyperswapActor: SK TelecomThe Scenario that causes system disruptions1. V9000 Hyperswap on site 2 IOGroup2. V9000 provide Hyperswap volume (site1:Master-site2:Aux)3. Provide 2x SAN switch for redundency4. Each host have 8 path connec...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize V7000 - Inactivity Logout

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Disable local accounts when AD/LDAP is active

Unlike the IBM TS4500, the TS4300 does not disable the local accounts when AD / LDAP active. This allows any AD based account that has admin role to create local admin accounts, bypassing all AD based controls and general security policies.
over 3 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Delivered

Support ILMT for Per TB licensing for 5.1 (ESS Support still needed)

Scale should support the use of ILMT reporting for Capacity licensing. ILMT itself can count PVUs, but it also has the ability to consume usage reports from non-PVU licensed products if they produce information in the correct format, and then prov...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

TSM support for MongoDB

Integration between full online and incremental backups of Mongo databases with TSM in a similar way as Oracle, DB2 or other databases supported by TSM do with Data Protection for Database. A
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Delivered

FCM Exchange: FlashCopy volume direct mount also for mailbox restore

Customer needs direct FlashCopy volume mount also for individual restores (single DB-restore, mailbox restore, mailbox browser) in FCM for Exchange.It's possible at the moment with "instant restore" for the whole Exchange DB.For single item restor...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Ability to create dependent filesets within an AFM cache fileset

Customer's automated software driven workflows require reproducible implementations across multi-site installations for ease of management, reduced maintenance costs, reproducible workflows and performance requirements. At present it is not possib...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Cancel Backup StoragePool command

TSM is a great product, but the automation of an Enterprise-class deployment cannot be done entirely within TSM alone. You already have a CANCEL EXPIRATION command, which cancels the expiration without needing to know the process number. I would l...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

New commands to control SSH usage

the ability to monitor / prevent SSH sessions from interfering with functional access and processing of background workload
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Implement Target Port NPIV

Target Port NPIV would allow a Storage Engineer to put multiple physical WWN's and assign a virtual WWN that would in turn get zoned to hosts. This would simplify the amount of paths a host has to manage and make the storage system more resilient ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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