IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Supports Key Wrapping over KMIP Protocol

    Key wrapping is a cryptographic algorithm which aims to provide “privacy and integrity protection for specialized data such as cryptographic keys. KMIP Protocol currently supports the Key Wrapping functionality but IBM Storwize V7000 do not suppor...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    snmp event testing functionality

    One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Tape Device Driver for LTO - suppress internal speed control for big tape copy operations

    Performance Problems with TSM Tape to Tape Workloads on IBM LTO Drives at the customer Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)The customer openend the PMR 013FP4Y,724 on this case (the format doesn't fit the PMR ID field in this form).
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Support Metro Mirror (or better all Copy Services) for LUNs up to 16 TiB

    Currently DS8880 officially supports Copy Services (Flashcopy and PPRC) for volumes up to 2 TiB.IBM can support volumes up to 4TiB replicated by Copy Services submitting a SCORE RPQ.But today big LUN's in Open environments, particularly in virtual...
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Make it possible to set Read permission for the secondary volume of the Metro Mirror in CKD format and enable permission of b

    MUFG Bank, previously it was BTMU, is planning to improve fault tolerance in the zLinux DB environment, and for that reason Mirroring Contoroller which is the function of Fujitsu DB Symfoware Server plans to cope with server failure as well as sto...
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

    A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    vDisk Protection in a DTA Snapshot environment

    With vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, two parameters are provided in SVC and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion of a disc. Unfortunately, this function is unusable if additional products dynamically create and delete vDisk....
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TSM Bandwitdth management

    The need is for a TSM client to dynamically modify its behaviour depending on the available bandwith
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

    Additional controls allowing TSM server "delete filespace" command

    A global TSM deployment with many TSM servers. Our organization has identified an issue with the current TSM Administrator support framework. The issue is the TSM support team currently has access to TSM server backup data as well as the primary d...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    SVC Threshold Based SNMP

    Threshold based capacity and performance SNMP alerts should be configurable
    over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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