IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add considerations for worklaods with large transfer sizes to Compresstimator

    Clients rely on the results of the "compresstimator" tooling to understand whether volumes may be good candidates for Realtime Compression or not. This guidance is focused on the expected compression ratio. However, the performance of largely sequ...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Option to select the GUI language to override browser config

    Provide the ability of selecting the GUI language rather to override the browser configuration if desired.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Provide ISP Client Management Services also for Linux on Power LE

    We use ISP CMS to rollout ISP Client configuration on our ISS Cluster systems. Now, besides x86 based ISS Clusters, we got our first IBM POWER LE based cluster and recognised that IBM does not ship ISP CMS for POWER LE. But we need CMS also on the...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    TSM4VE - requirement of Windows proxy for file-level restore in Linux environments

    Setting up a TSM4VE file-level restore for Linux in a Linux only environment requires a Windows based TSM4VE proxy. Customer requested support for a Linux only based TSM4VE proxy instead.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Automatic Failover Failback with Node Replication

    Today Node Replication is more or less only constrained to DR. However after meeting with Greg Tavis and other developers it's clear that this feature is changing in the future to be able to backup and recover from both the source and the target s...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Have the ability to "lock" a session from admin role to avoid any action on that session

    In some d/r configuration where you can setup a MM-GMp session normally working but also a GM reverse session from H3 to H1 to protect the data when you switch to H3 site to run production, it could be advisable to have the ability for the admin r...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Lift the limit that one filespace can only have one node replication session

    I got more than 50 filespaces, some of these filespaces are filled with PB-level file data. To replicate one of the PB-level filespaces on LTO-8 tapes, will take more than one month. 1PB=1024*1024*1024 MB LTO-8 Drive read/write speed: 360MB/s 1024...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

    in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because COS System send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Submitted

    Migrate config node without reboot.

    Currently the only way to move the config node, it to reboot nodes. This seems to be overkill. There are times that it would be handy to migrate the config node without rebooting nodes
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    CIM agent on DS8900F for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

    CIM Agent not available on DS8900. CIM is the only option to connect Spectrum protect snapshot to generate DB2 & SAP integrated Flashcopies https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6353361#req_stg ***note:NON ZOS RELATED BUT RFE WEBPAGE ONLY ALL...
    about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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