IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    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

    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

    SPP monitoring for Ticket

    SPP failure alerts support for monitoring tools
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

    When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Please add ACME Client for TSSC

    Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On TSSC this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals. A ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

    2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Allow RDMA device recognition possible at mmfsd run time

    Sometimes, when mmfsd starts up, not all RDMA devices are available (mostly due to temporarily down links). When such a link comes up later, mmfsd would not detect that and consequently ignore the port for the current run. Only when recycled, mmfs...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    server support on windows server 2019

    Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

    Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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