IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    TSM &HSM independently backup data & metadata

    It is about making TSM (SpectrumProtect) and HSM ready to deal with large number of files and huge data pods by doing backup of data independently from meta data.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    Add SMTP protocol for event

    For information security reasons, some companies are unable to connect out the systems to report issues and events. Most IBM Storage and Mainframe systems have an SMTP protocol for sending e-mail alerts but not in TS77700. Can you add this option ?
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Power Consumption and Energy Statistic Reports

    As with most companies nowadays, we have a very large focus on our environmental impact. Keeping track of our power consumption and carbon output is very important and it's something I would like to see added to be available from a PE-Pack for DAS...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    server support on windows server 2019

    Windows server 2019 is widely used and users/customers expecting support for spectrum protect server and operation center on this platform
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    List the Volumes from a Volume Group (CLI)

    It is useful for some customers to list in the CLI, the volumes belonging to a given volume group (for scripting/automation purposes). A simple command with the volume group ID or name.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    DS8A00 DSCLI: allow -compressionThreshold values of 14% and below (Alerting required for usage values of 86% and above)

    Why is this useful? Alerting for more critical usage values (usage above 85%) is important to be informed about high usage situation Who would benefit from it? every user of DS8A00 with FCM4. How should it work? Allow any percentage value for - co...
    11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    use sort from rust-coreutils to speedup mmbackup/mmapplypolicy

    For large filesystems mmbackup and mmapplypolicy spend long times with sorting data. This idea is about improving those times considerably. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils is a re-implementation of the GNU coreutils. The sort command is much q...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights - Add individual server performance stats

    Request for Storage Insights and Spectrum Control to be able to provide individual server performance statistics. Currently SI and SC cannot provide individual performance statistics for a specific host. When you look at the servers, they are show...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Backups of k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS

    We need to be able to protect k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS as that is going to drive our business.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level.

    We have a large RFP where the proposed file system must have user- or node-level isolation mechanisms, such as sub-directory mounts and the ability to collect and examine usage statistics at the job level. We have a strong competition from DDN so ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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