IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

    Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

    We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Add ability to show data at rest is in encrypted and the encryption cipher via Rest API.

    We need this to be accessible via an API for audit requirements.
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    SCDM GUI extension request (update of group marked jobs)

    It is not possible to set grouped BACKUP jobs as "Hold Schedule" and "Unhold Schedule". Same for grouped selections for Delete request.It is only possible to do this sequentially according to the selected individual jobs, which is incredibly time ...
    9 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Introduce effective quality management

    During the last year, we saw many new ISS code levels, most of them with critical errors that could lead to data corruption or data loss. Fortunately, many costumers were spared from data corruption, but they had to update Scale nearly monthly to ...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

    I noticed that some requests have been made for this support, but I really would like to see some attention given to this issue, because the last driver update is over 3 years old. I need to move on because the end of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is a...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

    As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

    Tunable options to reduce failover time of ESS when one of the IO servers fails

    In 1H 2020, Korea team has made significant growth in ESS business. However it is noteworthy that business of our competitors have grown together. This is the evidence that market for fie storage is growing. Therefore it is strategically important...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration

    Add the ability to use more"custom tag" fields with a tag manager

    We are all familiar with the Custom Tag1, Custom Tag2, and Custom Tag3 fields but many of us find ourselves needing more tags for advanced filtering or for an ideal place to keep up with common attributes. The new GUI seems to have this as a place...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Create PBR relationship from Replication ports - and not from Management Port 1only.

    We are replacing Netapp Storage at customer which has 2 sites. They are doing replication between the 2 sites on dedicated layer2 network. We have FS5300, with 2 ports dedicated to replication , why the PBR must be configure from the primary manag...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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