IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Include SW that looks to see if a health check has been done within 24-48 hours before allowing a Storage Scale SW upgrade

    Ensures that a Storage Scale/ESS SW upgrade will not fail due to potentially failed boot drives or other drives/components having failed since the last health check, if the health check had been performed many days or weeks previously to the SW up...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Insights should not report a node is in error status, if the cluster is being upgraded.

    If a cluster is being updated, all of the nodes are going to be offline at some point. That is expected. One shouldn't receive a notice that "Storage System Node Status Is Error ". SI should know that an upgrade is being performed, so it doesn't n...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Ability to restore an Oracle DB to a single host in a RAC cluster

    Basically, we need to be able to select one member of a cluster as a restore destination.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Add possibility to change SQL agent communication IPs

    The SPP SQL Agent needs to communicate with the ISP GUI to get the credentials for mounting the SMB log volume from the vSnap.Unfortunately it's not possible to change the IP or network which is used for this communication. This is a big issue in ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    SSL CA certificates expiration date monitoring

    We would like to have possibility of monitoring expiration date of SSL signed certificates by Customer CA through IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and have ability to perform certificate renewal if possible. This would be a huge improvement ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Automatic archive log inactivation by Spectrum Protect Snapshot for SQL

    Full backups made by Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FCM) for SQL, through VSS, do not inactivate the previous archived logs, causing them to accumulate on the Spectrum Protect Server. The inactivation process is done manually through the command line,...
    over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    IBM INsights : volume level capacity metrics for an array and a specific volume in the array

    we is looking for volume level capacity metrics, especially, for an array and a specific volume in the array , how is the volume capacity changes over a week / month etc this is very important feature to be available in metrics during the performa...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights

    Integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights (This is specifically for IP network traffic monitoring). Since Industry move forward to TCP traffic this will important feature This helps for observability for TCP traffic kindly work with developm...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Multitenancy, support for multiple AD/ldap

    SPP need support for Multitenancy and ability to add multiple AD/ldap (Under System->LDAP/SMTP) so MSPs can protect multiple customers with one SPP solution and let customer decide which users/groups should have access to what in SPP.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    now ibm csi issue job to gui, gui only has 16 threads to handle it, in some condition it is very slow, gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task

    gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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