IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

    Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

    The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

    The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    GUI accounts that are restricted to specific filesystems/filesets

    The ability to create GUI/Management API accounts that are restricted to one of more filesystems/filesets in the cluster.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Provide structured FS9 syslog messages for easy searching and sorting much like zOS syslog

    The current syslog is a collection of information with no specific message numbers or format. It's difficult to locate specific information.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?

    A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    add support for other KMIP server type

    Today, only SKLM is supported to encrypt tapes. To simplify infrastructure, we would concentrate our KMIP requests to only one type of server. So our request is to have support for other servers.
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 5 Planned for future release

    Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

    As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

    would like a ballance stgpooldir command

    This occurs when adding directories for added space to a spectrum protect container. The existing directories are very full, and the newly added directories remain very empty. There is no balancing of data across the newly added and existing direc...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    It could be nice to have an option like maxsessionspernode in replicate node

    The maxsession option in replicate node is for all node (when using with a nodegroup). So when a run a "replicate node maxsession=20" it could have up to 20 sessions for the last node, so it could have up to 20 filling volumes in the distant node....
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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