IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Enable storage firmware or patches upgrade via Storage Insights

Storage Insights gives recommendations for firmware upgrades and security patch installs. For a huge storage customer base, the upgrading/installing would be time taking and error prone. Amadeus is one such customer who is looking for storage firm...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Support immutable object storage with retention sets to object (retention pools)

Immutable object storage features, such as AWS Object Lock or COS Retention Vaults is supported for object/cloud container pools, but NOT supported for object retention pools. This request is to support immutable object storage for retention sets ...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration

Prevent from PMT / CPYT Throttling when PMTHLVL is exceeded but TS7700 is not at 100% Disk usage

Measures must be taken to avoid host I/O throttling kicking in solely based on the PMTHLVL. It is understandable that TS7700 prioritized work load to free up cache in order to receive new data from host. But when there is no need for Pre-Migration...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Allow emergency change of PMTHLVL w/o intervention from IBM Technician

Whenever the amount of data in the Premigration Queue becomes higher that the setting defined in PMTHLVL, a cluster may start to throttle Host I/O almost immediately. This may have a high impact on workload with high throughput. Since Feature Code...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Provide a possibility to Prioritize Work Load from customer side

TS7700 must provide a possibility to prioritize workload (Pre-Migration, Host I/O, Copy processes) on customer's demand. TS7700 can have several limitations defined, which may lead to situation where front end (host I/O) work load is lower priorit...
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Define object limits per user

Hi In case we are creating partitions on the Storage, and now for example OCP env using CSI driver , customer is now define user and script to create volumes/snapshots.If there is human error - the script can run in a loop - cause the system to re...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Central gui for agents

New GUI that you can install on a machine and then use to add all your backup agents, and where you can centrally manage backup/options/restore, and maybe even read log files.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Certification trust

Trust certificates trusted by OS - get rid of own local cert db. If we replace certificate on SP-server it should just work, as long as it is a global trusted certificate.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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