IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Enhancment to replicate node commando to only replicate nodes in send or sendsync mode

    I try to create setups without and errors or warnings from housekeeping scripts.I also try to work with opt-out mechanisms as much as possible for customers that agree to use that backup philosophy. When you build a two-way replicating Spectrum Pr...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

    Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

    Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Request for managing Copy functions in the DS GUI

    We have several customers Open / IBMi / zOS who use mirrored DS8000 and who currently use the Old GUI for management of the Mirroring and FlashCopy.CSM is economically not an option for them.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Add a host to multiple host clusters

    It would be nice it I could add a host to multiple different host clusters. You can currently map a volume to multiple host clusters and it works. The reason for this request is to reduce the risk of human errors. Lets say that we have 3 different...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Add observability and alerting for queue full conditions on IBM Flashsytem arrays

    Problem statement. Pool response times reach up to 100ms but there is no insight as to the cause. IBM support were engaged and identified the cause to be queue full condition on the front-end per TS019735977.It is a frustration to know there is a ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Interactive performance charts

    My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    Protocols - S3: REST API for mms3 commands

    Currently a REST API call to create a new S3 user account is missing, This is needed for several client applications. The AWS REST API and client provides this function which is currently used by a client application... workaround to create user a...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale capability to remote mount filesets

    implement ability to remote mount a fileset instead of a full filesystem
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

    TSM4VE lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way.

    TSM4VE seems to lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way. Competitive software, like Quest (formerly VizionCore) vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup & Replication does have stated support for multiple vCenters. It ...
    over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8 Not under consideration

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