IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

    We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SVC Snaps - customer related info

    SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    support Datamover and Proxy 8.1.6 on Windows Server 2016 SAC (not LTSC)

    Consider to add support for Windows Server 2016 LTSC and Windows Server 2016 SAC for Datamover and Proxynode TSM for VE 8.1.6
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    TSM for Virtual Environments VBS (Proxy/Datamover) Virtual Appliance

    Deliver TSM for Virtual Environments VBS as a virtual appliance (VBS = Vstorage Backup Server, also known as "proxy" or "datamover").
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Several users connected to the IBM TS4300 tape library at the same time

    Currently, only one person (on Operator Panel or Management GUI) can be logged in to the IBM TS4300 tape library at the same time. The customer would like several person to be able to connect to the library at the same time.
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Values also in "extents" in Spectrum Control capacity reports

    Actually, the capacity reports provided by Spectrum Control have values only expressed in GiB. Since they are normally also available in extents (for example in the DS8000) it would be useful to have them also with this unit of measurement, adding...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Under review

    Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

    When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

    support filesystem metadata migration to 4K-based NSDs

    Provide a transparent (e.g. no downtime) mechanism to introduce NSDv2 4k-aligned metadata NSDs into filesystems created with NSDv1 format NSDs.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    virtualized WindowsCluster protection by TSM for VE and FCM

    WindowsClusters can not be realized as snapshot by Vpshere is disabled by Vpshere itself. Snapshot API by Vsphere is used by TSM for VE and FCM .
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Allow clusters in TS7700 grid to have a local NTP source

    Allow Each VTS within a TS7700 cluster to source it's time independently to avoid call -homes when their are WAN issues.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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