IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

    Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Ready Node for Defender Sentinel

    Clients would benefit as they could procure the whole Sentinel solution from IBM and have it all supported by the same vendor. This also should take out the guesswork for sizing (by providing different T-Shirt sizes to scan a certain amount of TBs...
    4 months ago in Defender Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

    New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
    3 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    SafeGuarded copy enforced retention

    Currently SGC can be removed just from restricted security administrator, protected by 2-Person integrity (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=security-two-person-integrity). To further enhance SGC protection, the proposal is ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

    We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Global Search of Storage Protect Servers from DRS

    Add as a capability in DRS for any connected Storage Protect server.
    4 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Adding a new volume to a parent volume group containing a snapshot that a thin-clone volume group was created from should automatically add the volume to the thin-clone VG when that VG is refreshed from a new snapshot taken from the parent VG.

    Since the thin-clone VG is tied to the snapshot of the parent, if you add LUNs to the parent and create a new snapshot and then refresh the thin-clone from the new snapshot, it seems logical that you would want the thin-clone VG to also have the n...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Need a msg issued to z/OS when the SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully so we can trap it via automation.

    We run a SGC scheduled task every hour. We need to be able to get notified via z/OS automation when a SGC backup completes either successfully or unsuccessfully. More importantly we need to build automation informing us when a SGC backup has not b...
    5 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Functionality already exists

    Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

    Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    task-based TPI

    The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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