IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add information to Operations Center to make client management better.

    A customer needs more information in the operations center to be able to effectively manage client backups, particularly exceptions in the data protection services. For example, the current columns that can be selected include the at-risk status a...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    enhance command line output

    The text screen output from commands entered in dsmadmc should be enhanced. Many columns are too small and cause wrapping already for relatively short common values, making it hard to read. On the other hand, much space is wasted by separating col...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Node replication should report warning instead of failure when associated node cannot be replicated

    TSM 7.1.x reports a replication failure when a client node that has been setup for replication has an associated node which is not setup for replication or is a Receive Node. Replication succeeds, but process result is FAILURE, which is not the ca...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Report FE capacity for DB2 databases in OC

    We want to see the "Capacity Used" values for DB2 databases in the "License Estimation" of the Spectrum Protect Operation Center.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Balance workload over ISLs based on latency, not throughput

    In ESC when there is congestion on the ISLs in one fabric, SVC should be able to detect the increasing latency on the operations (mainly writes), and then send them through the healthy fabric. Current behavior is to balance the traffic between the...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Vdisk mirror – out of sync condition / reporting

    It would be a great improvement to show stale copies immediately in the Event Log, send as an SNMP trap or for example an email notification.
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a configurable session timeout for the TSSC web management interface.

    Security standards are further restricting the timeout of sessions for admin interfaces. Reduces risk.
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Support for GPFS Immutable Fileset to be used from NFS exports

    GPFS 3.5 and higher has built-in capabilities providing the SnapLock function to make files immutable (WORM protected). This function is based on immutable file sets but it not supported. SnapLock essentially allows to make file immutable using st...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Support for Cloud Containers (such as COS/Cleversafe) from Linux on Power

    Currently we have clients moving from old Power 7 boxes to new Power 8 boxes who want to start a new TSM server on Linux In addition clients are keen on COS/Cleversafe for more than just TSM. The lack of Cloud Container support from Linux on Power...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Operation Center Reporting, enhanced capabilities

    Two items:Reporting in Operations Center by mail is limited to only simple mail. Sending reports is only possible hourly, daily or weekly.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

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