IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Improvement of mmnetverify for remote mounted filesystems

    mmnetverify seems to be created with the assumption that everyone is using adminMode=allToAll, and is using passwordless ssh for many of it's checks. This is problematic both to local cluster with adminMode=central (no passwordless ssh from client...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    TDP support for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 8 for SLES on Power

    TDP for ERP 8.1.11 supports only SAP HANA 2.0 SPS7. Support for SPS8 needed, which is availible since Nov 2024.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Planned for future release

    Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

    In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Rebalance client nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to transparently rebalance nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns. Currently, IBM Storage Protect, unfortunately, lacks th...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

    It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Add filter to FAL (File Audit Log), so it's possible to ignor specific events

    When FAL is enabled, it's all or nothing. When enabled in a bussy enviroemnt the number of events is high. It will be possitive if it was possible to ignoge specific events (ex. directory list) so the number of events could drop in number
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    TS4300 Deep Archive Support

    I would like to request Deep Archive support for TS4300 by 4Q 2025.　Deep Archive support for TS4300 is required for implementation in the customer's PoC environment.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Future consideration

    allow automatic recovery group and application definition by integration with 3rd party CMDB

    customers need to manually build applications, even if they auto generate recovery groups. Recovery groups are not auto-generated from the CMDB
    3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Sample RTD payload generation from web console to webhook

    It would be beneficial to have the option to send a sample Ransomware Threat Detection Anomaly event alert from the console. Our SIEM can only build rules from data schema collected through the webhook. Having to run a simulation to get an alert t...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    The Storage Agent should add date and time to its messages

    Because the Storage Agent (STA) is not issuing all its messages to the SP server it is connecting to, we are redirecting the STA console to file at STA startup.Today, the STA is not adding date and time to its messages, which makes it very difficu...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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