IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    different failoverhladdresses for nodes

    there is only the option to set failoverhladdress globally. but if there are tsmnodes coming through many different interfaces, there is no way to set this for each interface or at least node-specific
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Storage Insights doesn't collect performance data often enough

    Storage Insights can collect performance data no more frequently than every minute. Some storage devices, such as Spectrum Virtualize, collect data more frequently than that. Since some performance events take place on the scale of seconds, it is ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

    DSCLI updated to work with Azul JAVA

    Oracle are looking to charge customers for JAVA utilities. https://redresscompliance.com/decoding-oracle-java-licensing-java-licensing-changes-2023/#:~:text=entire%20employee%20population.-,Did%20Oracle%20change%20the%20Java%20license%3F,old%20PRO...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Automate Spectrum Scale AFM Role Reversal Process for Failover

    Request to Automate the IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystem's AFM Role Reversal Process used during failover event.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improve data collector health status indicators, and alert about data collector health issues.

    In Storage Insights, problems exist where the workload balancing algorithm moves all workload to one data collector, because the other data collectors get into a state where they are “alive” enough to respond to the heartbeat, but not alive enough...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    SP support for encryption of DB backup

    SP support as of SP 8.1.10 encryption of DB backups when backing up the DB to Cloud. The encrypted DB backup is protected by a password. Similar functionality should be available when backing up the SP database to other device types including sequ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Ability to view capacity info as z/OS reports it

    Insights is great for viewing info (real time and historical) at the device / storage system level similar to the gui for the DS8K. However that is not the most useful info for day to day operations of these devices defined to z/OS. Insights does ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add support to Spectrum Protect Plus for DB2 on Windows Systems

    Actually Spectrum Protect Plus does not support DB2 running on Windows Systems.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    File Indexing - Change default SSH port 22

    For file indexing restore the SSH service must be running on port 22 on the server. Please add an ability to change default SSH port 22 to other.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

    Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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