IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    We need this to be MSP friendly to allow multi tenanted view of our customers

    We are an MSP and it would be a good way to monitor our customers environments
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 1 Future consideration

    Allow file-indexing without sudo(root) on Linux VM's or local admin id on Windows VM's

    System: Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.8Request: Need new feature on SPP to allow file-indexing on on Windows VM's with out a local admin account on the VM and on Linux VM's without granting sudo(root) all access on the VM.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Operations Center: Automatic PMR Creation and Support Bundle Upload

    Automated open/creation of PMR from Spectrum Protect Operations Center and upload of Support Data Collection Bundle
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    [Fusion Backup] Add resource check list at restore time

    When we execute a restore we can select if we want restore all PVs or just check a specific one. It would be great to add same functionality for resources so customer can select a specific ConfigMap or specific Secret instead of recovering all. If...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Snapshot - Support with HyperSwap Volumes

    Hi Team I have a customer who is looking for support for FlashCopy Manager (Spectrum Protect Snapshot) with HyperSwap volumes. From the link below I see that it is not currently supported:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21455924 T...
    almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    CONVERT STGPOOL should have an option to convert only data for a node or node group

    Spectrum Protect CONVERT STGPOOL should have an option which allows the user to specify that data for only a node or node group be converted into container pool storage WITHOUT setting the entire pool to a readonly-state. The process of conversion...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect scheduler - better handling MISSED Event

    We're struggling in meeting the SLA because of MISSED backup. After investigation most of the missed backup we have here is hourly backup schedules being missed because a FULL backup or INCR backup is running for that same client node. Would it be...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Storage Insights Ceph integration : To show all meta data

    Full fledged Ceph-SI integration with complete meta data collection of the Ceph cluster including Capacity, Performance metrics. Also to include ticketing, advisories, L2/L3 view features. Samsung / Joyent customer has requested for this.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    zstd compression & dictionary support

    If zstd support is added to the product it would be very interesting to allow for a few dictionaries to be used to improve (de)compression speed and compression ratio. This is ideal in situations where ILM policies can be written to target either ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SLA schedules are removed to early from ISPP

    When the last VM or Database is removed from a SLA policy ISPP will also remove the complete schedule for this SLA.Unfortunately this also includes all post processes like replication or archiving, which means the backup data will not be copied to...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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