IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

    Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

    We would like TDMF to be able to increase the size of the VTOC during a migration also for same sized volumes, not only from a smaller to a larger volume.

    It would be a nice improvement to take advantage of a migration with TDMF to be able to expand the size of the vtoc for same sized volumes. We don't unerstand that it can do it only from smaller to larger volumes meanwhile it has the ability to do...
    over 1 year ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Submitted

    In SPP need the ability to backup local drives on clustered VMs that have non-unique UUIDs

    The customer has a need to use SPP to backup Windows VMs that are clustered. Currently when they look at the drives under each cluster the C:\ drive only appears on one of the servers in the cluster. The reason for this is that each C:\ drive has ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    extend the eventlog - type Audit 'A cartridge setting was changed'

    When a physical tape is moved to the i/O station or a drive a audit statement in the eventlog will be create. In this record are no information about the cartridge and no information about the target destination(drive oder I/O Station). The sendin...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

    Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    Enhancement of Centreon Flashsystem Connector

    Centreon offers Onprem infrastructure monitoring. It benefits of a very old Stowize connector. It collects only basic metrics but nothing about ransomware or datareduction by example. https://docs.centreon.com/pp/integrations/plugin-packs/procedur...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    TS7: DELEXP Count Max

    The client expires more tape during the daily expiration process. The current max of 5000 can not keep up and they are having to add scratch tapes. We are looking for the ability to increase that number from 5000 to potentially 8000 to 10000 volumes.
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Email notifications for individual sessions

    Currently email notifications only have the ability to send a broad range of information. We'd like the ability to set it so email notifications can be sent for set sessions so only the information for that session is sent out. i.e. the failed or ...
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Custom Certificates for DSCLI

    For many years our DS8000 environment has been getting internally flagged as being a security risk. This is because it's seeing the certificate presented on ports 1751/1756 as self signed by IBM. This idea would be to add the ability to replace th...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    true ransomeware detection

    Gov. require all banking industry to do true ( AI driven ) ransomeware detection and defense which available to other Dataprotection software. the way we do now is by a fake ANR3692W msg without any intelligence ( our product manager Girish aware ...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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