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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    Automatically clean up binaries of old scale releases after updating the product

    When upgrading Scale version (both server and client nodes) using published documentation, we noticed that old versions are accumulating in /usr/lpp/mmfs/ directories. # du -sh /usr/lpp/mmfs/* 717M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.1.9.3 385M /usr/lpp/mmfs/5.2.0.1 ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    IBM needs policies to exclude specific data from creation and deletion scheduling for Storage Scale

    General Motors is using the GUI for basic creation and deletion scheduling, but they have written manual scripts to exclude specific data. In our architecture, when a snapshot of a complete filesystem is taken, it automatically snapshots every fil...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Protect Syslog Server panel with Dual Control

    What happen when a hacker will change IP for RSYSLOG server. Logs are no longer transfered to syslog server and nobody is able to no longer see what happens at the Library. Please protect Syslog Server Panel with Dual Control
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

    The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 10 Not under consideration

    Provide Notification When PPRC link failure rate is high on all PPRC paths

    We recently had a WAN issue where one of the circuits was experiencing very high packet loss for carrier A. Even though there was a second healthy circuit provided by carrier B, the failure rate was so high on carrier A's circuit that all PPRC pat...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Oracle on zLinux compatibility for IBM CDM

    A client currently uses IBM FlashSystem in a VMware environment and holds a license for IBM Copy Data Management (CDM). However, they plan to migrate their primary workloads to IBM LinuxONE and adopt Oracle on zLinux as part of their future archit...
    10 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    maxruntime parameter does not honor admin schedules with wait=yes

    The maxruntime parameter could not be used for administrative schedules where processes with wait=yes are started. APAR IT21651 documents the behavior.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

    Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    SPP Container Backup Support for multiple storage classes

    Container backup support at the moment only supports container native storage class, we would like to add more storage classes to be supported with one solution.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    When registering an SQL server source (single instance or AAG) allow both an OS login account and SQL account to be specified.

    Within SQL server, you can allow authentication/authorization to be done via OS accounts (local or domain) OR only allow database tasks such as DBA roles be controlled by SQL Server accounts. Some organizations consider the latter to be more secur...
    10 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

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