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IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Integrate Spectrum Archive into Spectrm Scale GUI

Integrate IBM Spectrum Archive monitoring into IBM Spectrum Scale GUI and mmhealth.IBM Spectrum Archive provide a Grafana Dashboard but would it be good to intregrate such graphs into Spectrum Scale GUI (migrate/recall, drive performance, etc) as ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

IT Infrastruct Analyst

Based on the case TS003038751, we would like to suggest the improvement in the product IBM Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisor inventory. When I have some host in "maintainance mode" in Vsphere environment the jobs show a lot warmings logs because o ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter)

Require a VMware SRA (Storage Replication Adapter) to be developed for SCALE / ESS. Have an urgent requirements for a SAS Grid implementation that will be deployed across two locations. Scale AFM Async D/R replication will be used replicate data b...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Archive option for TSM for VE long term

Hi to keeping Long-term data retention with Virtual Machine, the listed solution is recomended from IBM.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21651348However this solution has caveats such as not capable to expire exports very long run ...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Simplify addition of "ephemeral" native clients

To add a client to a Spectrum Scale cluster requires that both the client node is booted and for the administrator to run administrative commands on an admin node. In a virtualised environment where clients are elasticly created, this is difficult...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore

Select All function in search result of BAClient GUI for NAS restore
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Messages Without Message IDs

A product family such as IBM Spectrum Protect has a great many components, each of which can have hundreds or even thousands of messages. With so many messages, the customer will need some method to find explanations. In general, many messages are...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

RFE for GPFS - requirement for a non root user to be able to run their scripts under GPFS without errors / SELinux related

It seems like there is a limitation in GPFS that a non-root user may not modify extended attributes of a file unless they are in the "user" namespace.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Re-instate prereq check script in 7.1 install

In the 6.3 installation tar file there was a pre-req check script. This is no longer available in 7.1. please re-instate the functionality
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

BA/API client: Call 'vssadmin list writers' only when necessary

Spectrum Protect Client (BA/API) V8.1.0.0 on Windows unconditionally calls 'vssadmin list writers'.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration