IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Protocols - S3 Glacier for Storage Protect managed tape libraries

    It seems the feature has been implemented in NooBaa, but Storage Scale still does not officially support the S3 Glacier feature. Without S3 Glacier support, S3 users have no idea that their data has been migrated. This creates challenges for syste...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Future consideration

    Storwize host creation should allow delimited WWPNs for input

    Storwize should allow for the use of delimited wwpns (eg c0:00:...., c0-00-....) in host creation dialogues and mkhost commands. The network view allows for viewing the wwpns in several formats with or without delimiters, but input requires the us...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

    It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    change the default data collection behavior of gpfs.snap utility

    the default behavior of gpfs.snap is set to collect afm recovery data to include in the snap archive uploaded to IBM, Please create a switch in the gpfs. snap utililty to give the ability to exclude this afm data as this is financial data that may...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

    Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
    about 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

    We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

    IBM Storage protect setup for safeguarded tape functionality

    We are finding a description of the setup and recommendations for Storage Protect in combination with Safeguarded Tape.
    24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Password expire message on GUI

    Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Planned for future release

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