IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

    It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

    Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

    For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    PBR verify replication direction change when using CLI

    PB Replication: In certain instances the QA databases are refreshed daily from the Global Mirror targets. With the current process on the SVC you can specify the replication direction for example “svctask startrcconsistgrp -force -primary master 5...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

    as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

    We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

    In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    vMotion support for NSDs under certain architecture patterns

    Among new features of ESXi 8.0 (10/2022), the API notification system was introduced. The API notification system instructs ESXi to coordinate with the guests how events will be handled. This coordination capabilities could be leveraged to enable ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

    Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Support DHCP with NSD for ESS/SSS clusters

    This will allow enterprises that require DHCP for ip address resolution.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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