IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Update device password through the REST API

    Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

    Operation Center should have the option to use SMTP with authetication method

    The Operation Center deployed in a production environment should have the option to user other SMTP methods to send reports. My client do not allow smtp wthout authentication in production environment.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    Detaching BVIR processing from IBMTOOLS - Integration in TS7700 GUI

    Hi, every TS7700 user knows the procedure with downloading ibmload, ibmcntl, ibmjcl... from the ibmtools library etc. This is necessary to be able to further process BVIR data generated by the system on the zos. In order to be able to process new ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

    Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    Enable Discover to scan for Data Classes such as Last Name, First Name, Date of Birth, GPS Coordinates, Latitude and Longitude

    The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) is able to use the Regex based data classes in Cloud Pak for Data/ Watson Knowledge Catalog. However, Discover product is not able to leverage non-regex based data class...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Enable Discover to complete full scan of Unstructured source (document) and collect metrics such as gross count and net count

    The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) stops scanning the document after detecting the first instance of the data class such as SSN or Phone number. At this time, the results from using the Discover product o...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Stream Audit Log entries Spectrum Protect Plus

    It should be possible to stream the Spectrum Protect Plus audit log to a central collector, much like Syslog. At the moment it's only possible to download the audit log (or parts of it) using HTTP or the REST API.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM Tape Tools should be properly supported and developed

    The free IBM Tape Tools aren't sufficiently supported within IBM support structure. Some of the tools are to analyze or report on tape are generic and useful for any type tape hardware while others are specific to IBM TS7700, like GETHIST and CPYH...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Insights - Provide the Data Collector as a Docker Image

    To simplify the deployment of the collector and run it on the Mainframe offer this software package as a Docker Container so it can be simply deployed to zCX or OpenShift (RHOSCP).This keeps the data collector close to the environment where it col...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Provide power usage and temperature via RESTful API

    Many clients have carbon footprint measurement initiatives and are asking about environmental values like power consumption and temperature. They are asking about ways to programmatically query the systems to collect such information regularly. Th...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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