IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Spectrum Scale CES SMB-NFS Separation

    The today CES Protocoll implementation of the accestype file NFS and SMB are implementetd together. This seems to be a Problem if we want to separatly maintain the component. If we stop smb we see already issues in nfs. This is for us not really a...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Event notification capability to mark a hardware/software event as "Acknowledged/Unfixed" to suppress daily ongoing notifications until able to be resolved.

    Current Spectrum Virtualize Software behavior: When an event is triggered/logged for a hardware/software failure or pending failure it causes SNMP notification to our in-house Monitoring system that triggers a call out notification to the Team (as...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

    The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

    Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Add Additional SYNC Copy Information to BVIR Historical Statistics

    The existing BVIR historical statistics records do not contain enough information to determine the percentage of synchronous (SYNC) copies that were processed in a deferred (SYNC-deferred) manner in each fifteen (15) minute reporting interval. Onc...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Support for CSVFS

    We are using spectrum protect backup software to backup windows environments, one of the requirement from business side to backup CSVFS file system, which is not supported yet.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

    Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

    LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Storage Rule Exclude Function

    Today when you create a Storage Rule Replication you can either assign all nodes or exclude all nodes and then create a subrule and include/exclude specific nodes. In our case do we have a 2 Sites solution where we replicate data between sites, th...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Bug in Storwize 8.1.3.5 - Object Type 'emailuser' expects 0 objects

    When attempting to prepare the 'svc.config.recover.sh' script, the task fails as the system finds 2 objects set of type 'emailuser' (e.g. 1. the default IBM call home email address and 2. the local customer email address). The extract below shows ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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