IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add debug kernel support to GPFS

    Hi I was trying to start gpfs on a debug rhel kernel for kmemleak debugging It failed due to being unsupported. Can this support be added in future GPFS versios?
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Operations Center does not allow a Container-Copy to be defined on a Directory Pool which Node Reps to a server using Cloud

    When a Directory Container Pool is using Node Replication to replicate to a server which stores received data in a Cloud Container Pool, the Operations Center GUI does not all a Copy-Container Pool to be defined to allow a PROTECT STGPOOL to tape ...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Reintroduce Topology View

    Reintroduce end-to-end topology view.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release

    Add 'fail-back to local' authentication for Remote Authentication users

    Ideally, for Cyber-Security, all Spectrum Virtualize logins should be set up for Remote Authentication, with MFA (Security Verify/future ADFS?). And the Superuser account would be the only Local account, disabled per SGC Best Practices. However, ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Functionality already exists

    Allow Spectrum Protect Plus to restore database to different instance using existing database name

    I backup a database EXAMPLE on one server(prodserver) under instance Prodinst1. I have a test server(testserver) with instance Testinst1. As part of testing, our developers use testserver/TestInst1 database EXAMPLE. SPP backs up the database on pr...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    TVE Duplicate Backup Task

    If a backup task is running and new one task is started on the same object using the GUI, it will cause the first backup to fail. The TVE system should indicate that a backup on the object is currently executing and skip or queue the second backup...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    XRSC: Use CA trusted certificates on IBM XRSC servers

    Our Proxy servers expect publicly trusted certificates from the vendor support centre servers ( IBM backend servers) that XRSC is communicating with via proxy servers. However, the backend servers are not using publicly trusted certificates.
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    XRSC: SSL encryption/decryption capability

    Support of proxy new functionality ( SSL encryption/decryption) for HTTPS traffic with port 10443: This is not supported with the current version of IBM XRSC software.
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    SPP dashboard to marked out following the RBAC settings

    In the Dashboard page, we saw the coverage. Although some users are scoped using RBAC functionality, the coverage is not updated in this regard.Same about the policy preview Is there a way to show the user his own perimeter? for exemple DBA team s...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    More control over "disable sessions" for client nodes

    Sometimes it may be necessary to prevent clients from connecting to a Spectrum Protect Server to perform backups. Reasons for this can be, for example, maintenance work on the Spectrum Protect Server, where access to the storage pool is not given....
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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