IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    DS8K TCT can support a proxy server

    [Background] We were planning on using TCT to store data in IBM cloud. Because the customer hopes to have the encrypted data stored externally and used in a contingency.However, the customer's security policy requires the use of a proxy server for...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

    Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    SPP - Option for a Policy with Zero Retention / No Backup

    We have several VMs in our environment that we do NOT want to backup. We tag these VMs with #No-Backup. However, there is currently no way in SPP to omit these VMs from the stats or associate them with a ‘No-Backup' Policy with a zero-day retentio...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Ability to export backup data from directory container Storage pool and mover node data from a Directory Container stgpool

    SYSTEM: Product IBM Spectrum Protect ACTOR: User requires additional option of the export/import node to include backup and archive data stored on directory container object storage pool, both on on and off premise.Function to back up a directory ...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

    We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

    Spectrum Protect Replication Workload

    The workload value for the node replication in spectrum protect is based on an estimated value. The complete history of this value is visible when the summary table is filtered for activity='REPL_WORKLOAD'. The last value of repl_workload is also ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    SpectrumScale - Stability & Observability issues

    We had numerous issues on DataStage, while there were no issues I could see from any CNSA kubernetes objects, CSI drivers, cluster, remote cluster, filesystem, operator logs or events in any IBM namespace. I could see that some datastage pods were...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Protocols - SMB performance statistics for shares

    EMS GUI (Monitoring > Statistics) only provides SMB performance statistics for cluster or node level. Having stats on each individual SMB share would be very useful. NFS shares have such stats.
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    DRM Manager should support Container Pool

    DRM must support container pool.There is no information for container pool in the drm planfile. We need information which offsite/onsite tapes we need to recover container pools. We can checkout the tapes with drm commands but have no information ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Allow group owners to also query filesets

    We have user filesets (independent) that are owned by root but the group is actually the user. Unfortunately Spectrum Scale seems not to take group ownership into account and only the owner can query the fileset (mmlsfileset) which seems overly re...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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