IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Citi needs increase for the max limit for vol name

    Chatting with our dev team, the max limit for vol name length is 63 in the code (though we see 58 for ours). They can officially start working on increasing it with an RFE from Citi. I pushed for 256 and they’re open to it.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    multiple backup cycles support in TSM for VE.

    Multiple backup cycles support for each VMDKs is needed.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    GUI enhancement to better monitor core activity and not overall averages

    GUI enhancement to monitor CPU and see all core thread activity. Current GUI limits via to average node level activity and this limits the data viewed
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Config Node control on next movement

    would like a feature that can identify the next targeted config node and have the ability to change the next targeted node.
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Hung Process control

    During the time of impact to the GUI we encountered an issue with generating support saves which slowed down and increased delays in recovery. If there was a method to kill the current running process used for the support save collection, it might...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

    Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 Password Policy

    Per customer request:Spectrum Virtualize Password Policies Hello we would like to use the password policy in Spectrum Virtualize; however, we do not want the policy implemented for superuser, tpc user or storage insights (SIadmin) user. How can we...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Self service file restore from tape - support for multiple volume mounts

    Using self service file restore GUI if customer is having more than one volume to restore, the single file restore is failing from tape. The same thing works excellently from DISK. Since most of the customers stores their data on tape, its difficu...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    TSM on GPFS quota support

    del fi on repl target using dedup and GPFS . Problembeschreibung when running some del fi on a repl target using dedub and having DB, LOG and STGP on GPFS caused by the Dedup Deletion Worker the archlog was used to the given maximum by quota, i gu...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    INCLUDE INACTIVATION DATE IN QUERY BACKUP

    Include a new column showing the inactivation date of inactive objects in the output of dsmc query backup. i.e. dsmc q ba -ina -subdir=yes -showinactivationdate /mydir/* Also, it would be vastly simplify parsing if the dsmc client could do tab del...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Metadata Search for Repository backups

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs the ability to keep track of VMware metadata for backups once a a backup is moved off to a repository or S3 location. Not having the ability search for metadata (file search) on long term repository backups defeat s...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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