IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    IBM Lin_Tape driver support für Rocky Linux 8

    As mentioned above, it would be great if you would consider supporting Lin_Tape driver for TS4500 Tape Library on Rocky Linux 8.
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Under review

    Request for Warning Message in Activity Log for Cloud Connection SAS Token Expiration

    Current Behaviour: The IBM Storage Protect server does not generate activity log events related to cloud connection SAS token expiration. Risk: No access to the cloud blob storage will occur once the SAS token expires, resulting in backup and rest...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Restrict Critical Actions in AOS (Assist On-Site) Even for Root Users

    Summary: Implement safeguards in AOS to prevent root users from executing high-risk actions—specifically system shutdowns and core configuration changes—without additional authorization. To perform a shutdown, two independent authorizations must b...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above, we want it added again.

    The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above. Client want to be able to have it added again. It does allow you to set the site normally when creating host, and "lshost" also shows the host site, but in GUI there is n...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    DB2 backups failover S3 in the verification step using SP

    We got stuck with TS022932200.When backing up DB2 backup and restore works but not the verification.The verification step can be omitted: use DB2_OBJECT_STORAGE_SETTINGS=DisableETagValidation to skip this ETag problem.We would like the qualit...
    13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    code download checking integrity

    Customer Audit and compliance requirements are driving the need for independently verifiable evidence that firmware, Licensed Internal Code (LIC), and related system code have not been altered. While IBM firmware includes internal integrity valida...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Audit compliance for code intergrity

    Customer Audit and compliance requirements are driving the need for independently verifiable evidence that firmware, Licensed Internal Code (LIC), and related system code have not been altered. While IBM firmware includes internal integrity valida...
    about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

    Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Ready Node for Defender Sentinel

    Clients would benefit as they could procure the whole Sentinel solution from IBM and have it all supported by the same vendor. This also should take out the guesswork for sizing (by providing different T-Shirt sizes to scan a certain amount of TBs...
    about 1 year ago in Defender Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics

    Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics I have discussions with the clients who have high-density Microsoft Hyper-V environments. The Hyper-V leverages Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to optimize storage performance. While we can c...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Submitted

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