IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support of HyperV VM tags to select resources to backup

    Ability to select the resources to backup based on VM tags in a HyperV environment (same functionality as for VMware)
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP excluding disks Function for HyperV (same function as available for VMware)

    The function "Excluding single virtual disks from SLA policy for a VMware job" (description see Redbook REDP-5532-01, page 175) is current only available for VMWare but missing in HyperV.Inventx needs this function in HyperV.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Support for the recognition of cascaded FlashCopy volumes

    If a target volume of an existing FlashCopy relationship is used with FCM as source volumes (Cascaded FlashCopy), the FlashCopy relationship is established, but is not displayed in the report as an existing FlashCopy relationship. Even a Verfiy wi...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    GUI accounts that are restricted to specific filesystems/filesets

    The ability to create GUI/Management API accounts that are restricted to one of more filesystems/filesets in the cluster.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    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

    Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

    Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

    TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

    The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    SI to collect support data from SAN switches

    In a similar way that SpecV support data can be collected using SI SAN switch support data should be possible for Brocade (supportsave) and CISCO (show logging onboard, show tech-support details , show tech-support fcip) SAN switches
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future 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

    FlashSystem grid partition migration support with iSCSI host to the 9.1.0 tree

    FlashSystem grid partition migration support with iSCSI host was introduced in SV 9.1.1. but this code version is not LTS. the ask here is to add this functionality to an upcoming maintenance version in a LTS version like 9.1.0.3 or any 9.1.0.x
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

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