IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Change the unit of retention for snapshot from days to hours

I have a client that needs to do more frequent snapshots and retian them for hours instead of days.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP monitoring for Ticket

SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

zHyperlink performance monitoring

Spectrum Control is a tool that customer use to manage their capacity, performance and other metrics of Storage environments. Although the Tool/Software have a lot of functions, I realized the zHyperlink performance monitoring aren't one of their ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Accelerate re-balance actions when adding new ECE nodes into existing RG

Partner was opened two cases about expanding ECE nodes to existing RG. The re-balance progress was very slowly. The action was last for 3 months when adding 3 new ECE nodes into existing 5 ECE nodes topology.This is not a acceptable solution to cu...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

We need this to be MSP friendly to allow multi tenanted view of our customers

We are an MSP and it would be a good way to monitor our customers environments
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 1 Future consideration

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