IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Implement Hyperswap cluster health status on GUI

    In the Hyperswap demo from TechZone linked below, there is an HTML based "Demonstration Web interface" which is used to pilot the demonstration from a single point: https://techzone.ibm.com/collection/MOP-FLASH-HYPERSWAP-VMWARE_TECH It also visual...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

    The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Site locations to inherit the location of the devices

    Have sessions inherit the site locations that are configured for the devices that are involved in the session. Currently the site locations are custom fields that could be set to any text. You can select any location even ones that don't match the...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    SPP GUI integrated in SP OC

    if SPP Vsnap will have a direct integration with SP, GUIs should also be integrated. This integration could be show as only one product with different features.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Encryption in flight between Global Data Platform (CNSA) PODs using NIST and FIPs compliance for remote filesystem mounts

    Customer is a bank and wants secure communications between all nodes within the storage cluster which is possible but also between any clusters that remote mount and between the storage cluster and the Remote cluster. Because Storage Fusion with G...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    SPP - Support for Dataguard

    We would like to use SPP to backup our Oracle Databases. Most of the areas at the city will be moving to Dataguard later this year. If this is not supported then we cannot use SPP for this.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    "Too Many Groups" - Need to increase the amount of GIDs for Scale Linux from the current limit of 1020.

    if a person was a member of more than X groups, they couldn't access the GPFS filesystem. The customer opened a ticket about it with IBM. This would have been awhile ago – 2019 or so? I don't have the ticket number. Census has quite a few projects...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    SCDM support for KVM

    Many customers are using KVM hypervisor in their Oracle environments because of Oracle licensing rules. Thus, having SCDM supporting KVM virtualized servers will open new opportunities.
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Monitor Spectrum Archive components in mmhealth

    Spectrum Archive is missing from mmhealty. Please add monitoring of services and sub-component status similar to tiering to cloud. Lots of library, drive, cartridge and task statuses are easily available from the eeadm command.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Erase on Scratch (Hardware)

    Last year we were directed to use Erase on Scratch(All) on our z/OS Systems. Testing was done on our Development Systems, but due to long elapsed times for Batch jobs, Erase on Scratch was turned off. We have a mix of DS8886's and DS8870 DASD Subs...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

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