IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Tape DR capability restrictions during the site swap exercise

    Enable VTS Flash for a specified set of VOLSERs based on a VTS category, an explicit VOLSER list, or a defined VOLSER range.
    25 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Increase in the number of components analyzed simultaneously

    Hello Development team. I would like to suggest an improvement in the Spectrum Control. When some situation that needs a deeper analysis happens, like a performance problem, it is useful to see the behavior of the components. At this point, the Sp...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Proxmox Integration with IBM Fusion

    Target Customer Profile This solution is best positioned for smaller private market organizations that typically have: 25–500 virtual machines 1–10 IT infrastructure administrators Limited virtualization expertise Budget constraints Aging VMware e...
    2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Reset of "lsportstats -node port" error counters on IBM SVC.

    We would be very pleased and grateful if you could implement the following requirement.For troubleshooting and error analysis purposes, it would be very helpful if the error counters could be reset to 0 to see if various counters (CRCs, link reset...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Integrate Launch Out button from DRS SP Source view to SP Operations Center

    Integrating a Launch Out button from DRS SP source view to the SP Operations Center is an easy way to simplify integration points between DRS and Storage Protect daily management. The conceptual design was implemented as part of CDM integration in...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Timezone to be shown in log entries for security and system events

    Customer recently had an internal security audit for Virtualize 9.1. One of their findings was to ask for the timezone to be shown in the log entries.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    IBM Block CSI OpenShift Linux User Namespace Support

    Linux user namespaces (hostUsers: false) in OpenShift 4.20 enable stronger workload isolation by removing the need for containers to run with host-level UIDs. This is a key security feature aligned with modern Kubernetes best practices and Red Hat...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Ability to set timeout value for importing volume group and file system mount operation within a properties file on the CDM server.

    Currently the system lacks this capability, and our environment has on occasion situations that prevent these operations from completing before the hard-coded timeout expires. The ability to tune the time out will prevent the process from failing ...
    8 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    To use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication as primary storage pools.

    We want to use S3 (or Blob) object storage without tsm deduplication, as similar as for DEFINE STGPOOL (Define a retention storage pool) with cloud device class, but for normal primary stgpool. Compression and encryption should be possible, but wi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Enhancement request for DS8K GUI/ESSNI to show end-to-end I/O latency for CKD volumes

    As mentioned in the PMH, the I/O response time (System Latency (ms)) provided by the DSGUI of the DS8870 and DS8880 doesn't show correct end-to-end latency in CKD volumes environment, but unfortunately it is current restriction. It is same on DS89...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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