IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support DELL ECS and other for S3 lock container

    Give the Avaibility to add an S3 lock container on a Dell ECS solution to improve the security. Actually it's just possible to lock the data on COS or AWS.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TS7760T with a problematic PVOL requires SSR intervention to go ROR. Request is to change this behavior to mitigate interve

    The problem to be discussed:a) Reclaim of a non-exported, not-properly-ejected, physically damaged tape should have been easier to do in a multi-cluster grid, in the scenario DTNA experienced.b) Reclaim of offsite tapes should not have been impact...
    about 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes.

    Tool to Monitor IO per application from client nodes. Similar to mmdiag –iohist, or better - output json to be gathered by api's.Monitor the block-size read/write per applicationMonitor the IO pattern per application – rand/read/seq etc.Monitor pa...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    New Fileset Attribute to Ignore Special Owning Group and Everyone Permissions

    To allow applications outside our control to function properly when storing data in Spectrum Scale file and directory owners must be granted implicit control and have the ability to run chmod against files and directories they own. Depending on th...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Fully decompress files on read

    Allow a flag to be set on a file, fileset or filesystem to have files fully decompress on read.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Virtualize VSS provider has to support Hyperswap configurations

    There are currently limitations in the VSS HW provider used with IBM Flashsystem 9100 in Hyperswap configuration. This prevents Spectrum Protect Snapshot from supporting these configurations.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TDP for ERP - Support for Oracle 12c

    TDP for ERP is not supported for Oracle 12c.Oracle 12c was certified for SAP on March 2015.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance Install-Toolkit to add Firewall configuration support for rhel9

    Our current rhel9 Systems that are provisioned has firewalld system service actice bei default. This generate a requirement to define the nessacary firewall roules for scale.These are our current cmd's that we used: firewall-cmd --add-port=10080/t...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improve TSM DB protection

    Currently TSM Server v6 supports the following recovery targets: 1) PIT of the TSM DB backup; 2) most recent PIT. This RFE is opened to request an enhancement to improve TSM DB recoverability by leveraging existing native DB2 functionality to allo...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Implement a way for TSM admins to report stgpool usage over a period of time, for example, a data point daily for the last year.

    TSM administrators need to be able to predict when new hardware must be purchased, and a usage trend will facilitate that.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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