IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks. Once the scan is complete, the CDM proces...
3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
7 months ago in Storage Sentinel Submitted

Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Ability to set an alternate directory for the creation of EPIC, iris.cpf file, within a properties file on the CDM server.

This ability will help us make better use of the CDM product and avoid failing or long running jobs.
2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Fail job when cleanup fails

Currently a CDM job will import file systems, scan for threats, and then remove the file systems. However, if the cleanup (removing file systems, removing volume groups/disks/etc.) fails, the CDM web site shows the overall job as a success. This c...
3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

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...
12 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Monitoring portset from Spectrum

We would like to be able to monitor port sets from Spectrum to view usage statistics for the ports within a port set, and, if possible, to generate graphs showing utilization rates, bandwidth, IOPS, and various other metrics.
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control Submitted

Add Microsoft Hyper-V Support in IBM Storage Defender Sentinel and IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management

IBM Storage Defender Sentinel and IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management currently lack native support for Microsoft Hyper-V environments. This limits security scanning coverage for customers running Windows-based virtualization infrastructures...
4 months ago in Storage Sentinel Submitted

Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Assigning less CES IPs than CES Nodes to a cluster should not throw a warning

Hi! If you have multiple CES Nodes in a cluster but only one (or less CES IPs than CES Nodes) every CES Node, which does not have a IP assigned will throw the warning "ces_network_ips_down". This is very misleading, because the IPs aren't down on ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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