IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    TS7700 (TSSC) - Certificates - allow selection of multiple entries

    Certificate management shall switch from 'radio' button to 'check-box' to allow multiple entries to be deleted with a single click. Currently I have to select a single entry, click delete, select the next one, click delete and so on. If check boxe...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    In non-GM sessions, make the SUSPEND command a two-step process

    For non-GM sessions (Migration and Metro Mirror), make the SUSPEND command not appear in the default list of commands. I would suggest to add a Session Option in the Session Properties which would have to be selected in order for the SUSPEND comma...
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Resource Quota for Fusion Backup service

    Currently, it is hard to estimate the amount of resources that Fusion backup service will consume. This makes it hard to size and license for the OCP infrastructure required. Will be good if we can allow user to set a resource quota for Fusion bac...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Display Standby Synchronization Progress

    In larger environments, it can take some time for the Active server to synchronize the Standby and progress to the Synchronized state. Currently there is no way to know how much progress has been made or how soon the servers will become Synchroniz...
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    New Synchronize and Swap command related to Active and Standby Servers

    Create a new command that would combine the steps to synchronize a Standby server and then automatically swap the Active and Standby servers once the initialize synchronize completes. For larger environments where server synchronization takes an e...
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Allow Storage Insights to recieve and pass on notifications from other tools such as CSM

    The idea is to make SI the single pain of glass for the entire storage environment. An example would be for it to log notification from CSM when replicated volumes go out of sync. This would reduce the number of IBM tools the customer has to setup...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    DS8K - Multiple local user support when AD/LDAP is configured

    In DS8K - post configuration of AD/LDAP, it allows only one user in addition to LDAP users. Since we have local users created for different purposes (for e.g. CSM replication user, Spectrum Controller user, Monitoring tool integration users, Servi...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    Deep Archive and Vaulting

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently include support for off-site or out-of-library tape vaulting . Although this functionality is not used on a daily basis, it could be very useful for customers who need to export ca...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    Deep Archive and QoS at bucket level

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support QoS. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring bandwidth throttling applied at bucket level, and would greatly increase the adoption of this technol...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    Multi-factor authentication for Storage Deep Archive

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support Multi-factor authentication for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind security enhancement, and would greatly i...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

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