IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

    Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

    LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    LDAP Direct Authentication - Multiple placeholders strings for Direct Auth

    LDAP/AD environments are sometimes complicated and users can exist in multiple OUs and Domains. To remove the necessity for an LDAP bind ID we would need to have the ability to search the LDAP forest or allow for multiple placeholder strings. Plea...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

    Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Storage Protect Snapshot sould support IBM FlashSystem MuliSite Hyperswap (MSHA / PBHA)

    In Sep 2023 with Storage Virtualize Version 8.6.1 new functions was release for FlashSystem/SVC called MuliSite Hyperswap, also named as Policy-based High Availability. We need SPS to support this.
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

    Node Replication for NDMP Node

    Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

    Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

    Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

    When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    CES Support for L3 BGP Network

    Currently CES only supports Layer 2 networks where there is a specific subnet such as 192.168.20.0/24 where the virtual IP (VIP) addresses for CES would get assigned to an interface such as eth0 on a node. This does NOT work with Layer 3 networks ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    AOS Control in the TS7700 MI

    Please make the AOS Stop/Start/Restart Controls available in the TS7700 MI. This should be much like it is in the DS8K GUI.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

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