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IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Attach an existing directory to a fileset

Was discussing root admin with ibm dev Germany and realized that some commands seem never to have finished development. You have two commands one to create a fileset and another to link it to a directory. But the link one requires the directory to...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Non-SSL adhoc node restoration not possible to initiate

Non-SSL Node adhoc restoration not possible configured to IBM Spectrum Protect Server 8.1.3 We have active directory authentication enabled for our spectrum protect admin session which requires SSL. But all of our nodes are still running in Non-SS...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Azure AVS support for Spectrum Protect for VE and SPP

The client of a BP would like to continue using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments as they migrate their vmware farm to Microsoft Azure AVS.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Request to support kernel version 5.4.15.x

Our OEM parnter Inspur Electronic Information were resold many ECE cluster to their customers. One of key issue is limited kernel supported in Storage Scale. Their customer need flexible support policy to kernel version. Their customer need to use...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

OpCenter NAS Filesystems

Should be able to see NAS/NDMP filespaces as a column in Operation Center, and track last backup date. Expectation:Operation Center -> Clients -> NAS Filesystems* Just like Virtual Machines expands out the entities and filespaces for each VM...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

SVC Role based authentication

Current users in SVC generally have root level access to all pools and LUNs. Would like to add additional roles such as monitor-level and roles restricted to certain disk pools.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Manually running cloud offload per VM

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

ESS support RoCE lossy Network

ESS support RoCE over lossless setting by adapter and switch. But lossless network will limit the overall cluster size. We need ESS to support RoCE Lossy network. As we known, The full IB network has the best performance, followed by RoCE, and the...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows CSVFS

Support for Windows CSVFS (introduced in Windows 2008-R2).In windows 2012 Microsoft drastically improved the usage cases for Windows CSV where you can use Scale-Out fileservers in a active-active windows failover cluster configuration which give t...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Sortable & Searchable columns in running jobs progress & job logs

Requesting sort and search functions be added to the Spectrum Protect Plus UI. Specifically in the Jobs and Operations section, while viewing a job log and progress fields.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration