IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support for Azure Blob Storage Cold tier in TSM Server

    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers three online access tiers: Hot, Cool, and Cold.According to current documentation and support statements, the IBM TSM Server (Tivoli Storage Manager) currently supports only the Hot and Cool tiers. From a techni...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

    Data At Rest customized certificate : CN should be customizable

    When you want to implement Data At Rest on DS8xxx with key servers, you can use a customized certificate. The CN field value must be the storage facility image (SFI) ID for the storage system. For example, CN=2107-75NR699. This is mandatory, and i...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

    (See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Integrate Spectrum Protect authentication with existing accounts in LDAP servers not AD (like Tivoli Directory Server)

    Today, with Spectrum Protect, if we are using LDAP servers like Tivoli Directory Server, SP will create 2 OU's: Administrators and Nodes and also create CN's of each Administrator ID under it. It will only authenticate users that are listed in the...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    IBM Tape Tools should be properly supported and developed

    The free IBM Tape Tools aren't sufficiently supported within IBM support structure. Some of the tools are to analyze or report on tape are generic and useful for any type tape hardware while others are specific to IBM TS7700, like GETHIST and CPYH...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Increse Blocksize Spectrum Protect is writing to Tape

    Support bigger blocksize in Spectrum Protect Server than 256k or make it variable.For long distance Tape attachments latency become an issue which will dramatically decrease Tape Throughput.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Transparent recall of archived VMware VMs from tape via vMotion should work without failure.

    VMware Datastore via NFS is storing data on Scale disk with Storage archive to migrate archived vmdks to tape. The recall process is triggered by a vMotion process but it fails because the files are not recalled yet from tape. If the admin waits a...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Merge Partitions with different topology

    Request on customer feedback is the ability to perform a merge between two partitions running not in the same topology (or using identical settings). The inability to perform a merge of partitions with different topology (HA vs non-HA), impacting ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Error message to provide specific detail of problem

    When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

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