IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

    User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Request for DS8K GUI to show logically occupied in comparison to physical occupied capacity in dashboard

    Enhancement request for DS8K GUI to especially show in particular the logically occupied capacity also at first glance, and in comparison to the physically used. The Dashboard should already outline whether and how much is overprovisioned.The Dash...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Install ICS through Customer-Code-Load

    This is an enhancement request of Customer-Code-Load of DS8000 R9.3 and later. My understanding is that currently there is no way to choose an ICS through Customer-Code-Load GUI. (If there is a higher level of bundle, some ICSs are selected aut...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Bring FICON ports offline

    We have TS7700 that need to be isolated from production system. Having the possibility to vary FICON port down on VTS will add another security for data.
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Future consideration

    Improve dsmulog logfile handling

    Because the Storage Agent (STA) is not issuing all its messages to the SP server it is connecting to, we are redirecting the STA output (console) to file at STA startup. This is not optimal as the STA is not adding date and time to the messages wh...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Improvement of SP command 'q job'

    Hello IBM Here is my idea: It will be useful to be able to improve the command 'q job' such that it is possible to use the stgrule name as parameter, to just see the jobs for that particular stgrule. We are using many different stgrules, and today...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

    LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

    Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    SP Plus - Start Copy job/replication job when Main policy is complete

    Possibility to define in a SLA that a "Additional Copy" or "Replication" Should only begin when the "Primary" job is no longer running.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Multi-session retrieve functionality

    Similar to an older idea Multi-session retrieve [SPF-I-947] I would very like IBM to reevaluate and hopefully support multi session support for Archive retrieve workloads. With the current implementation it is not feasible to archive data to ISP a...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Future consideration

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