IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Queue Visibility for Prefetch (Priority vs Normal)

    Summary: Provide real-time visibility into prefetch queues. Description: There is no visibility into queue depth or scheduling behavior between priority and normal queues. Impact: Poor understanding of load distribution Difficult performance debug...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Provide a secure erase certificate when the "chdrive -task erase" command is ran

    Securely erasing storage media is more important than ever. While IBM does provide whitepapers explaining that the "chdrive -task erase" command does a NIST 800-88 secure erase, there is no documented confirmation after the fact for record keeping...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Allow Lun masking for the control path

    With the TS4500 and other tape libraries, the Library Control path (SMC Device) is presented via Lun 1 over one or more drives, while access to the drive (RMT Device) itself is provided using Lun 0. In a larger tape environment, there is usually a...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

    Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    add affected storage system / path for the message IWNR1963W

    The message IWNR1963W is: One or more logical paths between storage systems have entered an error state or have been removed. Sometime there are micro network issue that makes the path have a punctual error. As we have several storage system in ou...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

    Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

    IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

    Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    LCU count mitigation

    As we look ahead to future releases of the DS8000 product line, we anticipate that continued increases in both physical capacity and I/O capability will eventually outpace the subsystem’s ability to scale volume addressing under the 255 LCU limita...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    User/owner name should be again a part of the backup information (ISP Server Database table backups/archives column “owner”)

    After upgrading the ISP Client from 7.1.x to Version 8.1.8, the configuration on the DB2 Server is not compatible anymore.The instance owner as user is not presented on the Spectrum protect server backup/archive table(s) anymore and we would need ...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    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 ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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