IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
9 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

DECOMMISSION NODE/VM with Enddate

Add date parameter to DECOMMISION NODE and DECOMMISSION VM command.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SLA policy without schedule in SPP GUI

SPP GUI doesn't have any option to have a SLA policy without any schedule.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Automate Kubernetes Integration (Installation, Configuration & B/R)

Currently, integrating and configuring Kubernetes Backup (PVCs) is a manual and complex step. It has to be done manually in the K8s cluster and requires a large bunch of preparations and various commands to be executed to get it integrated. Additi...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Delete a single VM or data backup in SPP

30 Aug 2018 11:57 AM Mike, I would recommend opening an RFE and requesting this functionality. Robert[Less]30 Aug 2018 11:57 AMrobertsd (IBM) changed Status from Waiting for IBM to Awaiting your feedback.30 Aug 2018 11:49 AMMike Swartz (Customer) ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Ganesha Per Client Statistics

ganesha_mgr/ganesha_stats allow only seeing either the overall NFS operations or the per-export breakdown of the NFS operations. There is no command that displays the per-client operations of a particular export which is critical when trying to tr...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Operation Center reports to be saved and duplicate a report template

Current version of SP OC interface doesn't allow to save report results . It has only email option.I have clients still using TSM ORT tool to save reports or email . Due the lack of save function within SP OC we can not utilise reporting.If we cre...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Encrypt data on DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Encryption of IBMZ<->DS8000 (via FICON FEx16SA and/or FEx32S) is possible. Fibre Channel Endpoint Security provides in-flight protection for all data over FICON and Fibre Channel (FCP) links. But data traffic DS8000<->DS8000 via Fibre...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SC/SI don't offer more OS options for hosts

Host objects in SI and SC have some default options for OS type and a catchall for "Other."
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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