IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    chsra command should enforce minimum time out Vs Optional

    Allow customer to define a hard limit for idle time out Vs being optional and relying on an engineer to set the appropriate time out for each session that is opened.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Spectrum Protect KMIP support for encryption

    Basically requesting SP products compatibility with KMIP when using Spectrum Protect products built-in encryption capabilities.We are seeing encryption demands more and more every day and most of time customers want to have a unified encryption ke...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Signed kernel modules for Ubuntu 24.04

    Signed kernel modules, as delivered for RHEL, is necessary to run Ubuntu servers with Secure Boot enabled.
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Change the status of this type of error , so no PARTIAL status is returned. Only some warnings in job log.

    Error Message in the Application Inventory Job, which ends the Job partially (This trigger always a Ticket): [example.server.ch] A running instance was not found for database EXAMPLE. This error is raised because autostart is enabled in oratab. A ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Implementation of AOS Control via Ansible

    As per security requirement AOS must be closed and should only be opened when there is a reason for it. Like IBM Support working on machines or in case of any defects. In these cases, the control center gets involved and sometimes people who are n...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag

    Prospect requests a report showing which VM is assigned to which VMware Tag
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    support volume groups in ownership groups

    When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Add the ability to remove a TS7770 Feature - FC 5271

    Once a customer has a Grid installation of numerous TS7700s, FC5271 is required on all new additions/changes to the grid going forward. For a customer that is no longer using (or was never using) this feature, there is no way to remove the feature...
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Enhance security tied to DataPlatform for Cloud Azure deployment

    Currently, as a part of the Cohesity Data Protect DataPlatform for Cloud Azure deployment workflow, DMS uses the input Azure subscription information to deploy cluster resources. As a part of the deployment, a temporary Azure storage account is cr...
    4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Support QLC drives in ECE

    Currently,SSS 6000 is support TLC+QLC tiering solution. ECE didn't announce the similar feature. The trends is mixed TLC+QLC in one cluster as tiering solution. The shortage of TLC flash drives has also driven the adoption of tiered storage archit...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

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