IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

    Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system. being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monito...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

    Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    ESS GUI file system resize option requested

    It would be nice to be able to increase the size of an existing gpfs file system from within the ESS GUI instead of having to do it on the command line.
    7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Group View by Location

    Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    Streamline command line parameters

    mmhealth knows --unhealty. mmvdisk pdisk list knows --not-ok. Both essentially are meaning the same: only display the problematic stuff. I constantly keep confusing these two and use the wrong one. So I suggest to support both for all commands the...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Fusion Licensing - IBM License service

    Large telco customer would needs to use IBM License service service which will be used by all Cloud pak and other iBM OpenShift based license. Fusion has 4 key capabilities which are part of license VPC of worker node Primary storage (TB) bacukp s...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Multi-namespace Crash Consistency / Consistency Groups

    Today, Consistency Groups as supported with Scale/GDP ensure that all Pods in a single namespace can be snapshotted in a crash-consistent way. A financial services customer is asking for consistent snapshots spanning PV/PVCs in separate namespaces.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Support for SAP/Oracle running on AIX with Defender Data Protect

    Many customers use SAP with Oracle on AIX. Since DDP already supports Oracle standalone on AIX, and SAP/Oracle on x86_64, is there roadmap to include SAP/Oracle on AIX as well?
    about 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Allow custom configuration of ciphers used by a Spectrum Protect server for TLS connections

    Spectrum Protect servers use TLS for incoming client and administrative sessions over the netowrk. An incoming TLS connection is offered a number of ciphers to use for the TLS connection by the Spectrum Protect server. Whilst this list of ciphers ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Improve the error Prone Default Settings for Data Movers in TDP-VE

    We recently upgraded to TDP-VE for VMware v8.1.23 and when adding a new data mover over the WebGUI provides the User with default settings to add to the local .opt file. Under Windows this cause an issue with the logfile location. Below are the se...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

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