IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Enhance RESTful API to include configuration information missing in the existing offering

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. SSL/TLS Session Timeout Endpoint Identification on LDAP connections SP800-131a Compliance HTTP/HTTPs for Web Dual Control (in R5.4) LDAP Primary Server URL LDAP Alternate Server...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Delivered

Improved LDAP support for Security Administrator users in DS8000

If you want to use the Export/Import LDAP Remote Authentication configuration option, and you have at least one Security Administrator (SA) user defined, when you Import the existing configuration in a new DS8000, the SA user is not imported becau...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Improve system memory hard limit for GPFS program startup to adapt to AI system

We hit the following issue on Spectrum Scale 5.1.6.1 when GPFS is starting up. 2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] Verifying minimum system memory configurations.2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] The system memory configuration is 2063930 MiB2023-12...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

New power supply models

A dozen of power supplies replacement in less than 6 months on two TS4300. The quality of this components have to be reviewed.
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode e.g. AES-256-XTS
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Add number of mounts to REST GET DataCartridges response

With the new media lifecycle information provided in mount history report and via REST, clienst will also want to know the number of mounts for cartridges. The mount history report provides the mount count, the REST API doesn't. For automation pur...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Create flashcopy from "Volumes by hosts and clusters" view

It would be great to be able to create flashcopies from other places than "Copy services", like "Volumes" or "Volumes by hosts and clusters". Today, you need to first check what volumes are attached to a specific host or cluster and then go into "...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storage Scale - Need GPFS to support storing or exporting performance data into enterprise-level time series database like InfluxDB or Prometheus

Problem: 1. The "pmcollector" service usually cannot work well when the GPFS cluster has over 100 nodes. As a result, the GUI will not display the performance data normally. And restarting the GUI will not help.2. ZIMON can not process large amoun...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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