IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    improve the "eeadm file state" performance

    The customer uses' eeadm file state -q FILENAME' to check the file status to ensure that the file has been migrated to tape. Currently, the time required for this command cannot meet the business's needs, which will result in longer waiting times ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

    We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    DS8k - WWPN/WWNN for Fibre channel Ports

    According to the PLOGI (Port Login) and PRLI (Process Login) are used to establish connections between devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network).That means source and target WWNPN/WWNN are known. However, the details for the logged in links is only ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

    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 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enhance AFM to transfer NFSv4 ACLs from NFS servers like Isilons and store the ACLs correct as GPFS ACLs

    Storage Scale and Storage Scale System are great products. But in many cases, another storage is already used and there are no easy ways to migrate PBytes of data - except perhaps with AFM? Almost all installations use e.g. AD integrations and NFS...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Spectrum Protect Plus File level Restores

    Spectrum Protect Plus Restoration and cataloging not very user friendly.It would be nice if you can select and tick the folders and files you want restored. similar to Spectrum Protect (TSM) & Backup Exec and other backup software.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    would like a ballance stgpooldir command

    This occurs when adding directories for added space to a spectrum protect container. The existing directories are very full, and the newly added directories remain very empty. There is no balancing of data across the newly added and existing direc...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

    Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    FS5600 Snapshot Approach for Spectrum Protect

    To have the spectrum protect server db2 protect from crash recovery or cyber attack in faster way
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Storage Scale Recompilation Requirement Post-RHEL Kernel Upgrade

    Request IBM to remove the need for binary kernel module recompilation after RHEL kernel updates for IBM Storage Scale. This requirement adds operational overhead and complexity to patching and automation processes. While RHEL provides stable ABIs ...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

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