IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    LDAP enhancements related to RFC2307 mappings on Spectrum Scale/GPFS Windows

    Currently, GPFS Windows has functional, performance, and HA limitations related to the LDAP AD lookup. The details are documented in IBM Case Number: TS005919437. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002YlqdkAAB/kosmos-gpfs-windows-filesyst...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    SPP - DB validation prior to tape restore

    Requesting that IBM complete a precheck of the system/DB target prior to the starting of the tape restore using Production mode. The case referenced above - TS006352692 was generated after waiting 36 hours for the tape restore and failure could ha...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Requesting that customer system name be included in Call Homes for ESS and IBM Storage products.

    It has been noted that ESS Call Home cases (inclusive of other IBM Storage as well) do not have the name of the system in the cases description. We are requesting that this change so that system names are included in the call home for the CSP case...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    one Spectrum Scale GUI monitors multiple ESS clusters

    PingAn deployed several ESS clusters in China/Beijing and China/Shanghai. So far, they have to login different GUI web to monitor different clusters. PingAn raised the request for one Spectrum Scale GUI to monitor multiple ESS clusters so that the...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Limiting scan permissions for connection

    Currently when scanning a connection, Spectrum Discover will index everything. Having the ability to add a connection, but exclude certain paths in that connection based on a set of criteria would be very beneficial. A similar option to how we add...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    SPP Needs fallback for vmx-04 (without cbt = full)

    Spectrum Protect Plus does not backup VMs with virtual machine hardware version (vmx) 04, because this version does not support CBT (changed block tracking). Spectrum Protect VE does backup these machines but makes a full backup every time (fallba...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

    The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Set access for TDPO Database as read-only

    a function in the TDPO that allows the database to do the same as the "set access" option for a normal node. i.e. for a possibility to grant read-onlyaccess to a backups taken with Data Protection for Oracle.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    Apply disk fw without specifying all disk Ids with comma separator

    When applying disk fw we usually need to specify which drive Ids to be selected, separated with a comma i.e 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13instead it would be nice to only type a range of Ids 0-13
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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.
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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