IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Alternative Archive Destination with Oracle

    If, for any reason, the DB or Backup has had a problem und the archive destination is filled for 100% the DB get's in stuck.DB Administrator will choose an alternative archive destination.After Backup works again, it only backup the archive logs f...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Add additional commands to IBM Spectrum Protect's command approval infustructure

    IBM Spectrum Protect currently has the ability to require approval from two administrators for certain commands. However, commands like REGISTER ADMIN, UPDATE ADMIN, and REMOVE ADMIN are not included in this framework. From a security point of vie...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Enhanced RBAC with command specific granularity

    Implement enhanced RBAC policy configuration based on a per command configuration policy. We want to specify per defined adminitrator which actions/commands can be executed. Command approval as implemented in the latest versions is to limited
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Add Deleting Volumes to background processes when removing from DRP pool

    When we've deleted volumes from the GUI they had removed but when we went onto the cli it showed these as deleting, this would be useful to show in the background tasks as then we could have seen these were still being removed off the storage as t...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    FlashSystem NAS

    Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

    Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enhanced CSM Notification with priority and persistence functionality

    Adding the ability to make an alert persistent by selection would allow for some level of prioritization for critical type alerts versus non critical or informational type alerts. Currently the alerts are one shot. The alerts are not redriven at a...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    SPP: Progress bar for Replication & Archive

    Currently ISPP only shows a working progress bar for Backups. For Jobs like Replication and Cloud Offload the bar stays at 0% until the end and then jumps to 100%.This is a problem when monitoring tasks and trying to get a rough estimate how long ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Monitoring portset from Spectrum

    We would like to be able to monitor port sets from Spectrum to view usage statistics for the ports within a port set, and, if possible, to generate graphs showing utilization rates, bandwidth, IOPS, and various other metrics.
    6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Better representation of a "Migration" type session state in CSM

    Migration type sessions in CSM are designed to run replications in async mode (Global Copy) only. When you start a migration type session, the replications start in the GC mode and the session is in the "Preparing" state and it has a status of "Wa...
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

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