IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Document update to be more precise in what is not supported

    In the Spectrum Protect Server document, "Configuring clustered environments" section, there is a line below. > You can use other cluster products with IBM Spectrum Protect; however, documentation is not available and support is limited. https:...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Support for SNMPv3 on the TS4300.

    While SNMPv3 was supported on the older TS3100, it's not supported on the new generation TS4300 for more secure communication and the customer would like that feature to be added to the TS4300.
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    adding back CLOSE_WRITE to watchfolder and mmwatch

    as a customer , we need to get informed , when a file gets closed, but only, if the file was changed ... we are not interessted on CLOSEs , when the file content was not changed. To sort out millions of false positives of thise unchanged CLOSE cal...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    eeadm show task show progress of files migrated

    When a migration task start and a lot of files are inside the task to migrate, no progress is shown about how many files have been migrated already to know how much time a task will take to finish or how is advancing.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Archive support for AFM DR

    Hi, A Large Spectrum Scale customer in Israel who use AFM DR, asked us to find him a solution for archiving in the primary site. the customer asking this because he has more than 1PB relevant for archive in production site and he is willing to inv...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

    Catalog file discovery results failed in VM Backup

    SPP can run catalog file metadata on backup VM for different vLans networks.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    A setting or flag to prevent files from migrating if they are not yet replicated

    Spectrum Protect is replicating file that have already been migrated to tape
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for VMID

    Increases Visibility of VM traffic: VM-ID tags can be used by the Hypervisor and FC switches to understand the data flowing acrossits environment to better monitor outages or determining heavier traffic at different points along the path to help m...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

    SVC stretched cluster learning Easy Tier heatmap on secondf copy of Vdisk mirror

    Easy Tier considers each pool separately, without knowledge about mirrored VDisks. In a stretched cluster with full site awareness and host failover cluster as application, the pool in the production site (where the host failover cluster lives mos...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Disable E-mail (and other) notifications temporarily

    We are using a Notification alerting on CSM and it works well, however we would like to have a possibility of temporarily suppressing it when one does planned activity like increasing volume size (it requires breaking the mirroring, removing copy ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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