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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    S3 Object Storages compatible with Transparent Cloud Tiering

    We're implementing the Transparent Cloud Tiering for a Mainframe environment and customer would like to use other on-prem solutions of Object Storage, different of TS7700 or COS, to store data. Customer would like to use: - Hitachi HCP - DellEMC E...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale performance data collection with non root user in Spectrum Control

    When Spectrum Scale/ESS storage is added using non root user, performance data shows "Not Supported".Only root user can pull performance data in current design. There have been some requirement using "non root" user.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    Global Search of Storage Protect Servers from DRS

    Add as a capability in DRS for any connected Storage Protect server.
    2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Native support for Spectrum protect Server HA on RHEL cluster

    Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd (TKML) has recently changed there Spectrum protect server from AIX to RHEL. Customer was using Power HA based high availability solution for Spectrum protect server previously and now is expecting the same capability on ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

    A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

    Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    Include "Remove Session" command under dual control to secure LCP!!!

    To secure our LCP backup environment
    10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

    Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

    The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Update device password through the REST API

    Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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