IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Progress bar for Node Replication

    My customer needs a progress indicator, how much data have already been replicated. At the moment, there is no progress bar in the Operations Center ? There are the PMRs: TS001082298, TS000931890, TS000896249
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - NFS: health event if FD hard limit is above threshold

    Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support TLS 1.3 for use with IBM SKLM

    Industry is requiring stronger current encryption levels.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

    We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Spectrum Archive - Undelete functionality

    Hi,Our client would like to have a feature on Spectrum Archive that will do the following :1.)Allow the undelete (recreate of stub file) of deleted file(s).2.)List all files on tape.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    Add security certificate expiration date to "query status" output

    Current options for viewing security certificate include an actlog entry when the server is started and an option to toggle on an ANR message for every session. Having the expiration date in the query status output would make an easy way for custo...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    FlashSystem NAS

    Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Implement certificate validation

    Currently certificates are not validated. If a corrupted/defect certificate is uploaded, the library just accept it, and the gui will be broken/not accessible any more. The only way to fix this is to directly access the gui via the panel on your (...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Is a defect

    Allow the ability to run a report that will provide the differences between two policies

    I need to track all of the customizations between the default policies and the custom ones. Right now, I need to document that by hand. It would be far better to be able to run a report and have it provide the information. I also could see the use...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    add possibility to modify OpenShift PVC volumes attributes on IBM FlashSystems

    I would like to specify options like sync_rate or warning threshold in storage class when creating luns for OpenShift PVCs
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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