IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    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

    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

    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

    Spectrum Protect Windows server as virtual machine on KVM based hypervisor.

    In order to be compliant with IBM to get support and to have more flexibility around Spectrum Protect, we need to be able to run Spectrum Protect server as a virtual machine on a KVM based hypervisor (RHEV/Proxmox VE/Native KVM etc...) with Window...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    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

    Include rpm package audispd-plugins into Storage Scale System bundle to improve audit logging capabilities.

    In an regulated environment it is required to configure several audit rules at OS level, to be compliant. To forward the resulting audit events to syslog, it is required to install the rpm package audisp-plugins, which is not part of the current I...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tape

    SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Carles.ArisSubmitters Company: la Caixa PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PLAC0812-1536 Parallel access read support for virtual tapeHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

    Data inegrity checksum on stored data

    In the time of Big Data the storage solutions are increasing in magnitude. With the growth of the data the risk of being hit by a silent data corruption also increases. Spectrum Scale itself does not check the data integrity stored on the NSD. It ...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Copy Data Managment - support for Oracle ASM cluster

    Informations from customer about infrastructure and use case. "Oracle ASM HA, Grid Infrastructure ver. 19.7, BS database - cluster - 2 servers, Oracle Linux 7.9, kernel 4.14.35-2047.502.4.el7uek.x86_64, - ASM disk group, 21 volumes of 2 TiB, total...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Include affected resources in alert Payload to ServiceNow

    Upon initial configuration of the ServiceNow integration, it appears that affected resources are not included in the alert payload that is sent to ServiceNow. Current implementation only appears to have: { "severity", "subcategory", "name", "occur...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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