IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Defender Data Protect, local cluster UI links that lead to Cohesity support site(s) should link to IBM support site(s)

    Currently Defender Data Protect Help/Support dropdown links to "Help" and "Support Portal" link out to the Cohesity support sites that Defender Data Protect customers do not have a login for. These links and any other such links in Defender Data P...
    about 2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

    We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TS77 should write SMF as DS8* systems do

    Hi, as everybody else who uses TS7700, we also use BVIR (available within Tape Tools). BVIR makes it possible to get the reports about TS7700 performance, usage, virtual volumes, physical volumes, etc.. Unfortunately, right now we don’t really ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Support for vCloud Director

    We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

    Make IBM Tape boxes able to generate a CSR much like their DASD counterparts

    The IBM Tape boxes (TS7) currently do not allow the generation of a CSR (certificate signing request). This means you have to generate a certificate off of the box and upload both private and public keys. This is a gross misuse of security and I c...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

    Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    Handle same directory renames and mkdir operations better

    We have many instances where our users are concurrently attempting to perform mkdir and renames in the same parent directory accross many nodes. These operations cannot be handled by GPFS fine-grain directory locking. This results in every operati...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Implement support for the Unmap function "Write Same" on DS8000

    Any client who has Host system's that supports the use of the Write Same Unmap function would benefit from having this function available on DS8K. By having it. It would allow the client to reclaim previously used space within the DS8K. IBM's SVC ...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    customize commandapproval commands

    SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

    Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

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