IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

    The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

    Add withdrawal of persistent practice FC relationship in GM or MM Session

    With the more prevalent use of ESE for practice volumes, it would be beneficial to be able to stop the FC relationship to the practice set of volumes instead of having to schedule a flash to relieve space constraints.
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    mmbackup using virtualmountpoints for filesets

    We are submitting a Request for Enhancement (RFE) to improve the integration between IBM's mmbackup utility for Scale and IBM Storage Protect (formerly TSM). This enhancement will address significant performance bottlenecks we've encountered when ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Support for unlimited VMMAXVIRTUALDISKS size

    We are start using TSM for VMware again after a few years using a different vendor. But during our migration we see that the maxlimit for a VMDK is still 8TB are we are VMs that has much larger VMDK files. We need to be able to increase this value...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Spectrum Archive - Undelete functionality

    Hi,Our client would like to have a feature on Spectrum Archive that will do the following :1.)Allow the undelete (recreate of stub file) of deleted file(s).2.)List all files on tape.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Protocols - SMB: SLES as CES node on IBM Power Platform

    We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

    In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

    RMAN plugin required

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Enable Password Expiry Visibility in Storage Defender

    Storage Defender currently lacks a feature to display or monitor password expiry dates for user accounts. This limitation affects all account types, including both individual user accounts and functional accounts used for automation and integratio...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Improvement of modifying NFSv4 ACLs

    Hi,modifications on NFSv4 ACLs are very slow, especially if one modify pathes recursively with many files and subfolders (this could takes days on our system!). E.g. to add an additional ACL to a tree one has to read first the ACLs from the file b...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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