IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Protocols - NFS rolling update along with Active Directory

    Customer is having NFS being autheticated my MS AD. In this case SMB service needs to be installed and according to documentation, NFS outage is done when upgrading protocol nodes. Customer is requesting non-disruptive NFS protocol nodes upgrade a...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    DS8900 SYSLOG does not log severity

    Even though events can be sent to syslog, it is useless because it does not include the severity (information, warning, error), which makes it very hard/impossible to automate.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Provide a changelog for Scale releases

    Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Functionality already exists

    Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

    With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 library settings control to manage GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold, Attention Message Interval, SIM Generation Interval

    Provide an update to the z/OS Host library settings command for customer to be able to manage below settings, currently only IBM can view and manage the settings. 1. GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold 2. GRID Link Attention Message Interval 3. GRID...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    API to change the admin password on DS8000

    Since they're integration issues with CyberArk and DS8K it would be great for clients to able to change admin user password with API.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Restore snapshots to a different host.

    Restore snapshots to a different host to be able to do system copies.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

    An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Automating the management of certificates on devices

    The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    SSO login for CLI (MS Azure or ADFS)

    For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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