IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

    Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Auto expansion of inode to trigger once usage reaches around 95%

    Today the Scale alerts and auto expansion are triggered when inode usage is very close to 100% and typically that means when the filesystem in use is very active and busy and is not optimal for performance. Would like to see the auto expansion of ...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Request for improvement that the deferred copies should start soon after demount.

    Generally deferred copy is very useful to copy logical volumes to the remote clusters between long distance and to avoid longer job's elaps time than that sync or immediate copy consitency point brings on the grid configration.Today, deferred copi...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

    Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

    We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Better performance/parallelism on generate dedupstats

    It will be usefull to be able to use "generate dedupstats" to generate daily usage information for nodes/nodegroups on a multitenant setup.Unfortunately, the performance of the current "generate dedupstats" makes it impossible for us to generate t...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Protect STGPool type=local mounts tape before checking if data to be copied available

    TSM Server protect STGPool mounts Carts without any payload.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support for Gen 2 Storage Nodes in Fusion HCI Gen1 Rack with FDF

    Client who invested in Gen 1 HCI Racks with C01/C05 Nodes can add more capacity for bringing new persistent workload on OCP/Fusion Cluster. This can be achieved via testing C14 Storage Nodes in Gen1 Rack with C01/C05 nodes.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    Implement certificate validation

    Currently certificates are not validated. If a corrupted/defect certificate is uploaded, the library just accept it, and the gui will be broken/not accessible any more. The only way to fix this is to directly access the gui via the panel on your (...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Is a defect

    Add DB2 support for Spectrum CDM

    Add support for DB2 in addition to Intercache, Oracle, SQL and HANA databases in the Spectrum CDM product please
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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