IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

    Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    SafeGuardCopy data offload with system migrate

    offload Spectrum Virtualize Safeguard copy volumes to another system to extend the retention period and avoid hitting system limits on vdisk and safeguard copy mappings.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    CUIR (Control Unit Initiated Recovery) for DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

    Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DASD<-->Z works fineControl Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for Tape<-->Z works fineCUIR works fine with Microcode-Updates and hardware-maintenance Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DA...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Disallow to run a SGC recover when R1 devices are already in use (by another recover or by a practise H3)

    In our configuration R1 devices for SafeGuardedCopy are the same as H3 devices for practice. When we flash I3 devices on H3 devices for practise and then we run a recover backup for SGC the task failed with a x0FAE error code.But one time the H3 d...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Needs more information

    Track data collector upgrade attempts (successful and failed)

    Storage Insights records the time of the last data collector upgrade and upgrade version on the data collectors panel, but it does not record task activity or audit log entries for attempts to upgrade the data collectors. This activity should be r...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

    IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Pause option to resume automatic upgrade in GUI post node service for hardware issues

    When a node is serviced for hardware issues during upgrade process, the previously selected option of pause after each node is ignored and rather it goes with fully automated upgrade process without any pause if resumed the upgrade. Basically, we ...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Increase history from 2 weeks to a longer (per choice) period of time.

    2 weeks are to short for history for clients and servers where customers often asks for changes that happened maybe 1-2 months ago. Espicially when it comes to "what happened / why did my storage grow last month" but also in regards of SP server s...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    TAPETOOLS should be part of z/OS

    TAPETOOLS is currently shipped as a set of stand alone utilities. These need to be updated on a regular basis. The process of white washing Internet downloads and introducing them to the z/OS environment is getting very restrictive at some custome...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    SP Plus interface enhancement: job monitor

    In the Job monitor tab, add possiblity to filter entries to easily differentiate administrative tasks and backup tasks . Basically the Type column is already there but cannot be even used to sort the entries.Furthermore another column providing th...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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