IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Provide a resource to verify PGP Keys in SW Packages (e.g. B/A Client)

The SW Packages usually contain a specific PGP key to check validity of the downloaded package. Unfortunately, these keys are changed/replaced without any announcement. By this, customers do not know if the PGP key he has is valid or manipulated. ...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

Call home Support Report

When you go to call home cloud facility to view the z Machine and we have the report tab to see the channel & Adapters but I could not able to see the DS8k. if you have create like z Machine then it would be helpful. Kindly find the attached d...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Lustre allows 8182 users to be added to the ACL of a single file for R/W access, the latest Scale release (v5.5.2.x) only allows 1913 because a hidden ACL file is limited to 15KB.

Users in large environments like Sanger (UK Biomedical research lab) can continue to implement their in-house user access policies resulting in $10 million dollar in sales for IBM. Assuming there are 4000 users created via script (useradd was used...
21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Provide customer access to send ping commands down TCT interface links to test network connections without needing IBM to AOS into machine.

Customers currently have no access to test network connections for TCT ports on the DS8K. Providing an interface to send ping and traceroute commands out the TCT ports to test networking will save loads of time interfacing with support to perform ...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Easier or better method to mirror all required images for Fusion

Currently, there are a lot of steps required to mirror the images for Fusion installation. For example to have Fusion + Backup & Restore, we will have to mirror fusion images, then backup & restore images, then RedHat images, then the hotf...
23 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

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