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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    change the default data collection behavior of gpfs.snap utility

    the default behavior of gpfs.snap is set to collect afm recovery data to include in the snap archive uploaded to IBM, Please create a switch in the gpfs. snap utililty to give the ability to exclude this afm data as this is financial data that may...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

    In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    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...
    3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage protect setup for safeguarded tape functionality

    We are finding a description of the setup and recommendations for Storage Protect in combination with Safeguarded Tape.
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    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...
    3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    AlwaysOn Servermon should be able to automatically cleanup old datacollections in the instance_home/srvmon directory

    Multiple of our SP server instances experienced an issue which prevented AlwaysOn Servermon from starting up.The servermon log files show that servermon is crashing at startup.We found that servermon is crashing at startup because there are a lot ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Protect Client Installation/upgrade in Windows environment Windows System should not reboot to take effect

    This is regarding a customer query related to the IBM Storage Protect BA Client on the Windows platform. When an end user installs or performs a version upgrade of the Storage Protect BA Client, the installation process currently triggers a Window...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

    For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Enable mmbackup to Work on Dependent Filesets

    Currently, mmbackup does not support running directly on dependent filesets. This limitation creates operational challenges in environments where independepdent fileset reach upto max limit (3000) . Customers cannot prevent dependent filesets grow...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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