IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Prioritise selection of zOS Host Connections in Copy Services Manager

    Have the ability to be able to prioritise/order which zOS system(s) in the zOS Host Connection panel in Copy Services Manager (CSM) is selected. There is the possibility that some zOS systems added as zOS Host Connections may not have equal CPU ca...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    SPP GUI Language Option

    Starting from SPP Version 10.1.4 the GUI detects the browser language to automatically choose the language for the Web GUI (for example to german). We need a way to configure the language for the Web GUI for the logged in user. This is because som...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    DRS to provide ServiceNow plugin

    Customer is a very big consumer of ServiceNow for compliance and self-service requirements. They plan to implement it for Defender Data Protect. As part of the overall Defender cyberresiliency and security requirements, they also want DRS to provi...
    8 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    SI does not provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines.

    IBM Storage Insights currently does not explain or provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines. As a result, administrators must manually check vCenter Server for details. Please en...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Spectrum Scale - automatic audit log files rotation

    The File Audit Logging functionality from Spectrum Scale captures file operations on a file system and logs them to a retention enabled fileset.Depending on the number of operations at the Spectrum Scale file system, it can generate lots of audit ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    IBM_INSTALL_fs_usage to made permanent to avoid Node issues in iBM 9500

    FA utility was designed to report on the usage of /data filesystem so that you would be able to monitor for the situation you encountered on case TS017213594 related to defect SVAPAR-98497. But we noticed this not built-in and its custom utility w...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

    Policy Based replication - Keep the target volume mapped to the host when the source volume is removed from the source volume group

    On Policy Based replication, When I remove a volume from the source volume group, it should only remove the volume from the target volume group, the volume should not get removed from the array or mapping. It should still be available under the ho...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Manual ticket creation by mmcallhome/GUI

    mmcallhome is capable of creating HW tickets at IBM support portal on failing hardware automatically. Sometimes it would be helpful to create ticket manually. The credential/system information are directly available. Also any snaps and trace data ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

    Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

    postgreSQL Support

    PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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