IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Adding the NVMe over TCP/IP to the DS 8000 Connectivity and functionalities

    The benefits are: 1-Enabling the DS8000 Storage to be integrated with Distributed Sysplex and Edge Computing based on 5G Networks. 2- Enabling the DS8000 to transfer data over unified 5G network with Edge Computing. 3-Enabling the Intelligent Mana...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

    Lock contention Issue

    DB2 locking of a file or portion of a file with direct IO enabled causes issues with mmrestripe from a lock contention prespective.This should be addressed. The decision to change the disk location of a block and not allowing anyone to alter a blo...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    improvements of the RC handling in the CSMCLI framework

    For automation it would be easier if a validation of the return code is sufficient for successful CSMCLI command execution.Any Messages not equal Info Messages should result in a RC <> 0
    about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future 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.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SI should flag/alert when firmware or microcode level is End Of Support

    I would like to see (Maybe in Insights Advisor) if the Storage Firmware or Software is End Of Support. On IBM SVC family for example.. SVC hardware node may not be end of support, but it’s running a firmware code stream that IS end of support. Thi...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Schedule policy/job to execute every 4th saturday of the month

    Policy can be set to start on the day of the month (1st, 2nd,...) and can be set to start at Saturday but repeat it every 4 weeks, because some months have 5 weeks it's not acceptable. We need it to be set(because of load) every 4th saturday of th...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    File Type retention storage pool

    Only Tape class is supported as Retention Pool however many customer that has NAS appliance as secondary backup storage instead of Tape like to use retention set with a copy to secondary storage.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Ability to specify Node replication parameters on each node

    To increase security in the node replication feature, we would like to have the option to specify the target TSM server IP, Port, Nodename and Nodepassword on individual nodes - instead of global settings, which requires server-to-server communica...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    FCM for VMware: Support for duplicate UUIDs

    In Vmware environments it is a common procedure to clone a VM. After this is done, the new VM gets the same UUID as the VM where it was cloned from. A post process is necessary in order to give the cloned VM a new UUID. If this post process is not...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    FCM for VMware: GUI field "backup end time" should be optional

    When a new backup schedule is created, the GUI forces the user to enter a backup end time. These fields should be optional because some clients want the schedule to run forever.
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

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