IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Intellectual disk drive updates

    If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Optimize Write IO behaviour on DISK

    Using diskpools (deviceclass=disk) or filepools (deviceclass=file) on a non-cached disk system is very slow, and therefore not usable. Example (same setup in both cases):TSM write to diskpoolon 8x Internal DISK = 8MB/sAIX cp command on 8x Internal...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Syslog encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays.

    Syslog Encryption request for the IBM XIV arrays. Secure log shipping for XIV arrays
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    New options to TSM server query session command

    Query session option to display only sessions for a specific node. Query session option to display only specific sessions type.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for ClientUpdate in NAT'ed setup

    A sort of auto-detect mechanism would be nice for the ClientUpdate function - in order to detect which tcpserver address and tcp port number the client uses for communication.This is required, if client and the server are seperated ny at NAT'ing f...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

    Concurrent upgrades for Spectrum Scale Protocol Nodes

    Currently, upgrades to Spectrum Scale are disruptive, documented to be 20 minutes per node. The stated reason is that SMB versions cannot co-exist, however, it is likely that not all upgrades introduce a new version of SMB.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

    Tools or self tune mechanisms for troubleshooting

    Customers would like to have tools that would allow them to analyze our diagnostic information so they could more quickly determine what was wrong with the system and try to correct it (i.e. Self tune based on the latency and throughput of the net...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Flow diagram between the pods in OpenShift

    In order to better understand Spectrum Discover a flow diagram would be very useful. For example: We open the web UI and click on connections:frontend pod -> connmgr -> db2whrest 2. We start a policy via the REST endpoint:policyengine pod -&...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

    indication of severity in the notification e-mail subject line

    Currently, all notification e-mails shows "warning" in the subject line. Customer cannot which one needs immediate action and which one is really just a warning. Since each event is classified as "warning" or "error", the corresponding notificatio...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    RFE to allow exclusion of files and folders from a VE backup

    When doing VM backup using TSM4VE, is there any way to exclude swap and C:\temp from the backup? They take up considerable space and resources even if everything gets deduplicated out eventually. Type Amount inspected [GB] Amount backed up [GB]VM ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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