IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

    The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Tape Library Support

    Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

    Shortening Log Collection time and reduce Log size to speed up service and support for more efficiency

    TS4500 Log Collection is running more then 40 minutes and the Log size is greater than 750 MB. To speed up service and support time, we have to reduca tho log colletion duration and also the size of the log files. The idea ist to speed up and shor...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

    Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Support for native velero backup to Storage Protect using the S3 Object Agent

    In case of a non-OpenShift container environment, native Velero implementation can be used to backup containerized applications. Velero is able to write the backups to an S3 target, for which the Object Agent from the Storage Protect can be used.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

    customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

    Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Planned for future release

    REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

    Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

    BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

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