IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    maximum number of inodes to be increased automatically once threshold 70 or 80 % is reached, instead of waiting until the number of preallocated inodes exceeds the configured MaxNumInodes

    The number of preallocated inodes had reached approximately 90% of the configured MaxNumInodes. To avoid reaching the configured limit, we manually increased the maximum number of inodes to 2.5 million. We would like IBM Storage Scale to generate ...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    LDAP information included in storage summary report

    In the current output for the DS8000 storage summary report, there are a lot of configuration items included with it. Noticeably absent is the inclusion of LDAP information including whether LDAP is enabled, which server is being used, and whether...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

    Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
    about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Planned for future release

    The possibility to set end time or duration when defining storage rule for auditing storage pools

    To reduce or define time spent daily on audit stgpool and better planning of administrative processes. To not have administrative processes overlap, it would be useful to be able to control time spent on audit.
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Provide support on DS8910F for DADSM UNMAP function in Copy Services relationships to allow use of Erase on Scratch on z/OS without unacceptable overhead

    Our DASD environment is all-flash DS8910F, mirrored across a distance of approx 25km. In order to satisfy audit requirements, we recently enabled Erase On Scratch via RACF (SETROPS ERASE (ALL)). Unfortunately this created an unacceptable overhead ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Enable AWS STS support

    Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Add AIX support to Storage Defender

    Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Needs more information

    Add virtual volume usage information in Virtual volume search results

    Add virtual volume used size information in Virtual volume search results. It enables quick retrieval of usage summaries for specific clients in shared VTS environments.
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Allow for Windows/Linux OS reimiaging without removing reinstallation and data restore

    Add support for installation on a mounted disk (not the OS disk) and then allowing you to reregister the product with the OS after the OS disk is reimaged without having to actually reinstall the product. Then you would just unmount, reimage, remo...
    2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    MGR Dashboard LDAP/AD Integration

    Integrating AD/LDAP domains for user authentication to ceph mgr dashboard. This would benefit users in access restriction and user management with role-based access. For example, AD users would be able to authenticate using their own domain creden...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 1 Functionality already exists

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