IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

    I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Flexibility to change the volume group from PBR to PBHA

    Flexibility to change the volume group from PBR - Async replication to PBHA, just so that during DR drills; customer doesn’t have to bring the production systems down. Hence, flexibility of switching between PBR to PBHA and then back to PBR would ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    support SP server db encryption

    government of canada is requesting all financial institution to encrypt the database . our current Server database isn't encrypted or not support encrypt from DB2 side.
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

    SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

    Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Sentinel 1 Under review

    Running Fusion HCI Hub Cluster on Compact 3-node Cluster nodes

    Hosted Control Plane is efficient way of consuming Fusion HCI.Many clients are asking also to move traditional VMs to OCP to run on OCP.Also there are more GPU workloads.This makes us provision multiple bare metal HCP clusters.We need to dedicate ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    CNSA Support for Hosted control planes (HCP)

    Hosted control planes (HCP) are becoming more and more popular to consolidate multiple Openshift Cluster. It centralizes the cluster management and add security advantages. As we move towards HCP cluster, it is important to have CNSA supported for...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pool Storage Space Reduction

    Bosch is requesting a Spectrum Protect server administrative command which allows the administrator to reclaim container storage pool space including deletion of empty volumes from the file system.In an optimal implementation, the administrative c...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support for Hyperswap - Linux on Z.

    Hello Development and Product management teams. I would like to suggest an enhancement to the DS8000 related to the high availability solution, Hyperswap. We are seeing an increasing number of customers adopting Linux on Z, and one of these custom...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

    Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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