IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    DMS/Data Protect - Add DB2 backup support for other architectures (ppc64, s390x)

    Today, DB2 backups are only supported on x86. Mainframe and Power customers would like to see DB2 for other architectures supported.
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

    Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Protection copy for On-Premise Cloud Containers

    On Premise Storage like Cloud Object Storage (COS) and other vendor solutions gives the ability, to use modern data protection with on premise cloud storage pools. In the age of cyber crime and ransomware, it is very important and a business requi...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Directory Container Erasure Coding

    I have multiple smaller customers where we only have 1 Storage Protect server and are not using any tape to be able to run protect storage pool. This is little bit of a risk and also we put all our data in to one solution and if we get bad contain...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Improve alerting when "Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working

    We have noticed that “Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working our 9500 arrays causing gaps in our performance data. This has happened before on our arrays and there is no alerting that tells us, either on the array, or within Storag...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

    Metadata only Replication for Spectrum Protect

    Entering this request on behalf of Kroger Company Provide the ability on the Spectrum Protect Server to Replicate Meta Data only to an alternate Spectrum Protect Server located at a secondary site used as a Disaster Recovery site.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP

    Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale ECE - Support 512 storage nodes in a single ECE cluster

    With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our customers are expecting a single GPFS cluster and file system to scale to a larger size. We need a single GPFS cluster to surpass the current limit of 256 storage nodes, reaching...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Secure LCU from PPRC Target

    I would like to be able to keep a volume(s) from being used for a PPRC target. I would prefer it to be protected at the LCU/LSS level. Since there is no user associated with a PPRC target, resource groups do not apply. I want to be able to protect...
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Need expanded reporting capabilities in SPP

    Customer is unable to do true custom reporting to get reports that are meaningful to their business units. Currently there are only the canned reports in PDF format available. Customer would like to have the ability to build out reports in a simil...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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