IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.

    Directory method upgrade to support efix package of core packages through open source ansible scale roles.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

    We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Add ability to show data at rest is in encrypted and the encryption cipher via Rest API.

    We need this to be accessible via an API for audit requirements.
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Support for Ubuntu

    Redhat have now killed CentOS and there is really no option to get a cheap operating system for non critical application and small operations then Ubuntu Server or Fedora Server. And if a non critical application like IBM Spectrum Protect Operatio...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

    Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Update Cognos Analytics to a more current version

    At this moment with Spectrum Control 5.4.12.x the Cognos Analytics version offered via Passport Advantage is still version 11.2.1.Latest fixes for this Cognos version are from January 2022. Our security department is demanding that we fix a number...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    DSCLI for zVM

    Hi, Working for Kyndryl France, Resiliency Services on z Mainframe, we resize our dasd arrays very very often.I think it could be nice to have the opportunity to use DSCLI on z/VM rather than a browser or .bat on windows. Be able to develop a rexx...
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Add the ability to use more"custom tag" fields with a tag manager

    We are all familiar with the Custom Tag1, Custom Tag2, and Custom Tag3 fields but many of us find ourselves needing more tags for advanced filtering or for an ideal place to keep up with common attributes. The new GUI seems to have this as a place...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Create PBR relationship from Replication ports - and not from Management Port 1only.

    We are replacing Netapp Storage at customer which has 2 sites. They are doing replication between the 2 sites on dedicated layer2 network. We have FS5300, with 2 ports dedicated to replication , why the PBR must be configure from the primary manag...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Implementing purging algorithms

    Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
    11 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

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