IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Query for expiry date of cloud connection token

    Query for expiry date of cloud connection token. Currently only notification but need query to know when its getting expire.
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Add Storage Insights button/pill to CSP case for SAN Switch (Cisco and Broadcom)

    IBM sold fiber channel switches (Cisco and Broadcom), are part of Storage Insights, however we do not have the Storage Insights button with direct link in the CSP cases. We do have such pill/button on our Storage Products, but they are missing for...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights needs end-to-end topology view

    To investigate issues with performance or connectivity, end-to-end views are needed. These would show the server/host fibre connections to the SAN and to the SVC, likewise from SVC to the SAN to the backend storage. Possibly also show SVC host clu...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Deleting specific restore points for vms and applications

    Release 10.1.7 allows to delete restore points for vm and application backups on a backup job level (for specific job sessions or for all backup jobs of a certail sla policy).More granular restore point deletion options are needed (e.g. delete spe...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP VM Backup report shape

    VM backup report : all VMmane and details need to be on 1 line only to be usable for further use of selecting and data filtering. I attached VM_Backup_new_look_proposal.xls file which illustrate how we wish to have it. All build-in reports should ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Select background colour in GUI

    When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Support of 3 active replication relationship in DS8000

    To maintain 2 synchronous relationship on 4-copy at 2-site will require support of 3 active relationship to achieve a symmetric model to provide extra resilience in both cases of storage system failure and site failure.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

    Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    We would like to be able to backup AWS S3 buckets

    We have many AWS S3 buckets that users update every day. Versioning is very expensive as there is no dedup/compression and this is especially true if you replicate across AWS regions. We would like to be able to backup and restore files to S3 like...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    DSMCAD should write a PID File

    DSMCAD is missing an option to write a PID file. When the daemon is started it forks into background and the started process vanishes. You can only grep the process list to get the PID of the running process. Tools like systemd need this informati...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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