IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    After TLS certificate expires, IBM Spectrum Protect Server automatically renews the previous certificate distributed to nodes.

    IBM Spectrum Protect Server TLS certificate expires 10 years after the server instance is created. Immediately after the expiration, all client nodes are unable to connect to the server. One of my customers provides a backup service in their priva...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Ability to create Custom Folders to store reports

    Would like ability to create custom folders to store created reports other than the default folders provided. We have to scroll through a great number of reports to find those previously created.There is also no filter to help find generated repor...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    REST API for TS7700

    We would like to have an option to check the configuration of a TS7700 with an automated script. What pools, SMS constructs, how many volsers, etc. are configured.We have good experiences in REST API with DS8000 and would like to have a REST API i...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    In non-GM sessions, make the SUSPEND command a two-step process

    For non-GM sessions (Migration and Metro Mirror), make the SUSPEND command not appear in the default list of commands. I would suggest to add a Session Option in the Session Properties which would have to be selected in order for the SUSPEND comma...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

    Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Is a defect

    DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

    Request for Spectrum Protect Plus to backup and restore DB2 databases running under zLinux
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

    Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

    Storage Insight Product update

    Pure Storage new products are not reflected in existing IBM Storage insight. This is limiting the monitoring other vendor products. New Model: Pure FlashBlade//E to be added in Storage Insight
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Enable SMTP configuration to use SSL/TLS communication

    We recommend implementing SSL/TLS encryption for SMTP configuration to ensure secure, encrypted communication between clients and mail servers. This prevents plaintext transmission of authentication credentials and email content, mitigating risks ...
    4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

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