IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Identify nodes having open files which blocks quiesce file system/filesets

    We had the situation that the unlink fileset command failed: [root@xstm-d07-01 samples]# mmunlinkfileset exa_project1 training2601 -f Unable to quiesce fileset at all nodes. Fileset training2601 has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. mmunlink...
    6 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Expose file ownership (UID/GID) and permissions in dsmc query backup to enable self-service restores

    We are using `mmbackup` to back up large IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) file systems that are shared by thousands of users.Our goal is to offer self-service restores using `dsmc` while ensuring that users can only restore files they have POSIX-Access to...
    9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Submitted

    Increase REST API max requests per second limit

    The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Submitted

    Allow a single defender eagle agent to manage multiple SP servers

    This enhancement would simplify the ability to roll SP server information up into the defender DMS. Currently, each SP server must have a separate eagle agent, which can be inefficient especially if managing multiple AIX SP servers, as each would ...
    2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Add Data Collector Support for IBMi (in addition to AIX, LINUX & Windows)

    Customers operating IBMi only environments (without any Windows, Linux, or AIX supporting systems) require native Data Collector support for monitoring DS8/DSA and B/C‑Type SAN storage components. Without this capability, these customers lack esse...
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    The restriction of maximum VMDK size for data protection for VMWARE should be increased

    While current maximum VMDK size defined by VMware vSphere on VMFS is up to 62TB, the ISP for VE will allow backup only disks up to 8 TB - larger disks will fail. It should be increased to keep up with the product features.
    2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    SPS: Enhance restore capability to enable restore to an e.g. empty system.

    As of today, SPS requires that the to-be-restored filesystem exists before the restore can be executed. There are situation a customer wants to restore data (Db2) to an empty system: The System crashed, needed to be reinstalled, therefore the (dat...
    15 days ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

    When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
    24 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    SPS: Add roll back capability if restore fails

    As of today, SPS deletes the File System (FS) and Volume Group (VG) as preparation for the restore. If the restore fails, then the OS (here AIX) is left without the FS.To continue, customer needs to manually recreate the VG and FS, most likely to ...
    15 days ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

    Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
    22 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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