IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

    Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    parallel session when using node replication from tape

    Need support for parallel session when using node replication from tape.When for example run a RMAN Backup with 4 session to tape, we can replicate the data with 4 sessions over 4 tape and 4 drives to other side. With Node Replication only one ses...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Provide the ability to change the system layer from Storage to Replication without requiring a resynch for systems with established partnerships to allow systems to participate in FlashSystem grid.

    Currently, in order for a FlashSystem to participate in FlashSystem grid they have to be in the replication layer. Prior to 8.7.0 arrays were shipped in the storage layer by default. My client has 21 FlashSystem arrays and 18 of them are currently...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Enable Multi-Select Delete for Backup Jobs in IBM Storage Fusion

    In the current version of IBM Storage Fusion, the list of executed backup jobs allows only single-entry interactions. When users need to delete multiple backup jobs, each DeleteBackupRequest must be created individually per job. This is time-consu...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Change status of a need_replace tape

    The eeadm tape replace command is a command that take long time because when this command is in the reclaim phase, is only allowed to use two tape drive although a regular "eeadm tape reclaim" command is allowed to use more tape drive. Sometime, a...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    Ability to send custom reports via OC as csv attachments.

    Having the ability to generate custom reports as csv attachments provide extra flexibility for post-processing.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

    Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Predicting/built-in intelligence

    Today there are many repeatable task and manual human interaction to administer Spectrum Protect/Spectrum Protect Plus software. Examples: adjusting space reclamation, validate database backups, copy storage pool, protect storage pool processes, r...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    extend mmapplypolicy --scope

    I have a filesystem with >1300 independent filesets and ~540 million files. Running mapplypolicy with --scope filesystem takes a long time because all inodes need to be scanned. For some mmapplypolicy runs I only need to process one fileset so ...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Functionality already exists

    CSM Server restart & ESSNI restart confirmation in CSM

    Following a CSM Server restart, or ESSNI restart through the hardware management console, there should be an indication/event in the logs that that happened. Currently, there is no way to verify within CSM, that a restart of either of these compon...
    11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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