IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.19.1

    Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.19? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights Reports refresh

    There are many predefined reports, which seem to be from the generation 1 of Storage Insights. Compared to the really sleek UX desgn now, the reports are not really useful. It would be great to have a A4/Letter formatted report as PDF, aligning a ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights additional role and naming clarification

    SI offers currently two user roles - "Administrator" and "Licensed User". The first is essentially a Security Admin who can add and remove Storage Insights user additionally to fully use Storage Insights. The Licensed User can log on to the instan...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    TDP for MySQL/MariaDB is really needed.

    As an IBM Business Partner employee I support a number of clients with ISP installations. Everyone are quite in disbelief when I tell that there is no native support for backup/restore of MySQL/MariaDB databases, which are somewhat popular, since ...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

    new command to q options which differ from their default value

    There are many options available for the SP server, documented as well as many undocumented server options. All have default values, some/many are adapted to specific environments. A new command would be helpful which displays all the options whic...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Under review

    Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

    Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

    There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
    about 3 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

    The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks. Once the scan is complete, the CDM proces...
    8 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Need a rest API that returns File System and Disc component health status correctly

    Please fix the RestAPIs [below] to return healthy events for File system and Disc components as they do not match with CLI output from the mmhealth command. Ticket #TS016301085 documents this issue. [curl -k -u user:psw -X GET --header `accept:app...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Customer would like product enhanced to record the username of the modified/deleted user.

    The customer recently had an internal security audit for Virtualize 9.1. One of their findings was as follows: Description: If the solution has local accounts, are the below activities logged? a) Creation/modification of roles/profiles b) Modifica...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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