IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

The embedded DSCLI should support the key management commands.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

extend the Operations Center REST API by reporting functionality

extend the Operations Center REST API by functions to query reporting values, as they are provides by the "General Operations" report
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Event notification capability to mark a hardware/software event as "Acknowledged/Unfixed" to suppress daily ongoing notifications until able to be resolved.

Current Spectrum Virtualize Software behavior: When an event is triggered/logged for a hardware/software failure or pending failure it causes SNMP notification to our in-house Monitoring system that triggers a call out notification to the Team (as...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Support for Azure Blob Immutable Storage

Cyber Resiliency of backup data using immutable storage needs to be possible using Azure Blob Immutable Storage, both in Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, as both products are capable of storing data in Azure Blob storage.ICOS immutable ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly Currently we need to create new SLA for create additional weekly / monthly / yearly which need additional backup windows time and additional s...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Show Unprotected VM detail from Protection Summary

The Protection Summary section of the Policy Overview page shows protected and unprotected Virtual Machines. However I would expect to be able to click on the 'Unprotected' icon, for example, and get a list of unprotected VM's, but this is not the...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

RPO Monitoring by using the CSM status

The RPO is monitoring in a CSM Global Mirror session by using RPO alerts, according to warning and severe level thresholds. When RPO warning level is reached an IWNR2751W message will be seen in the CSM console log, and when RPO severe level is re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

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