IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

    In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    Enhance "Categories" Panel to Differentiate Between Scratch Volumes and LWORM Retention Volumes in Pending Deletion

    Description : Currently, in the "Categories" panel of the TS7700 (R5.4 & R6.0) related MI interfaces, there is no distinction between volumes that are truly in Scratch status and those that are still under LWORM Retention and only become Scrat...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1

    Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

    As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    CES NFS - SLES as NFS Client on IBM Power Platform

    Many SAP Customers in Europe are running SLES for their HANA DB Workload on IBM Power Systems. Due to the current search for software that offers the customer HA cluster NFS (cNFS) server functionality, Spectrum Scale is an ideal solution. But to...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

    We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopie...
    over 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

    Ability to send both configuration logs and information log to a syslog server

    Customer is requesting the ability to send all types of event messages to the syslog server. Currently either configuration logs, or information logs, are able to be sent to the server but not both. The specific request is that the capabilities of...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    CES NFS - extended attributes

    Storage Scale (GPFS) does support extended attributes for the users like: > getfattr -d stephan.txt > md5sum stephan.txt 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt > setfattr -n user.md5 -v 041ad89a0dc0772f384f8d1bf4ddff4b stephan.txt &...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

    Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    IBM Redbooks for IBM Spectrum Protect / IBM SpectrumProtect Plus

    There are no longer IBM Redbooks for this product available. The education budget was shrinked and the Admin Guide was removed. Where should customers get information how to work with this product
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    MGR Dashboard LDAP/AD Integration

    Integrating AD/LDAP domains for user authentication to ceph mgr dashboard. This would benefit users in access restriction and user management with role-based access. For example, AD users would be able to authenticate using their own domain creden...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 1 Functionality already exists

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