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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    Get SOBAR supported for Spectrum Archive Disaster Recovery

    We use SOBAR to backup metadata of all data that is going to Storage Archive. This is the only way to be able to recover data that was migrated toStorage Archive and recover this data when a disaster happens. In our use case we have an active arch...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Under review

    Optimize migration algorythm of seq. storagepool to collocated storagepool

    Short:When migrating data from a file pool to a collocated tape pool a large number of mounts occur in the tape pool causing throughput to go down and maintenance can not complete in time. Setup:Data flowClient > (backup) > file pool > (m...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    DNS names instead of IP addresses in TS4500

    In TS4500 I can not use DNS names for define Syslog or encription server, Only IP addresses are allowed. It's problematic when using certificates signed by our authority and use IP address in SAN is not common.
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    PBHA: Update location on a set of hosts at the same time

    use case: the customer wants to be able to change the host location; with 180 hosts, it's not feasible to do it manually; request a possibility to filter hosts based on volume name and then multi-select to adapt; if that's not possible, filter on ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Need for support the combination of AIX 7.2 TL5SP4 and DSCLI in a Japanese language environment.

    After updating AIX7.2 TL1SP2 to AIX7.2 TL5SP4, DSCLI doesn't display Japanese characters (Shift JIS, IBM-943) correctly. Support personnel explain that it is known as a limitation of S-JIS and advised to use English or UTF-8 instead of S-JIS. Howe...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

    Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

    Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Group SP server messages into categories ,specially messages related to CIA (confidentiality, Integratory and availability).

    Toronto Dominion bank ( TD) forward SP server msg into their monitoring system ( splunk ), they have a requirement to forward the msg into specific categories, for example: msg relate to CIA (confidentiality, Integratory and availability). so that...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Create tree view, persistent filters, or other technique to organize and sort protection groups and recovery jobs

    The data protection groups currently are all in a single view in the GUI. There are filters that do a plausible job, but the filter settings are frequently reset. Having a way to organize and filter the information in these views would make the pr...
    4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Open AOS for TS4500 via TSSC REST API Call

    (I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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