IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Reclaim database space

    I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    Integrate GKLM into Defender for Key Management/Monitoring

    Integrate IBM Storage Defender with IBM Global Key Lifecycle Management (GKLM) to enhance key management and monitoring capabilities. Objectives: Enable Storage Defender’s Disaster Recovery Service (DRS) to recognize and interface with GKLM server...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Under review

    Storage Protect server encryption for sequential file storage pools

    The Storage Protect server allows to use sequential file as a storage pool. The Storage Protect server does not allow to enable Storage Protect server internal encryption for sequential file. For security reasons, user data stored on Storage Prote...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Predictable handling of encrypted EXT4 directories on Linux

    For now the error when accessing an encrypted EXT4 directory by the backup client can be ignored by a setting in dsm.sys (see support case). But this leads to the effect, that an encrypted directory will be considered in a backup if the encryption...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    TLS Email Support

    Today does IBM Storage Protect OC has support to email reports over email, but this hasn't been updated for a wild now and the supported protocol is a unsecure SMTP port 25 communcation and we can always create a SMTP tunnel to a Cloud SMTP Server...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    make tags avaiable on the storwize that could be used to add volumes to applications groups in insight

    we are separating volumes on storwize/fs systems. we are putting them in application groups by os, so we can monitor performance. groups are vmware aix ibmi the problem is adding new volumes on the array, does not add them to the application group...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    TS7700 copy/replication time reporting in the BVIR record

    To day, it is required that the customer runs VEHAUDIT to get the copy time distribution report; the same report is attached. I have been approached by couple customers who would like to see the copy time statistics is written directly to the BVIR...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

    V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

    Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

    Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Ability to add a second NTP server on TS7700

    Have the ability to configure a second NTP server on TS7700 to improve resiliency, operational stability, and compliance while reducing infrastructure risk.
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

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