IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support for vApp options during restoration

    We noticed that after a restore, vapp Options are disabled with the loss of the settings which was previously defined on these vapp options.
    about 6 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Object Lock: Limit retention to a maximum number of days and add an option to disable COMPLIANCE lock on a bucket

    Add configuration on bucket or container vault or both that limits the maximum number of days allowed when using object lock. Configuration can be made using service API or GUI as this is not something supported on s3api. Another option that might...
    about 7 hours ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Submitted

    Need ability to toggle interfaces back to undefined from SCSI or FICON

    This would make is easier to determine which interfaces are actually in error for loss of light.
    1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Improve how to change volume population rate

    If the rate for a volume population should get changed (default 2 MB/s) it is required at first to display the "populating_mapping_id" using "lsvolumepopulation -showhidden". Then this "populating_mapping_id" must be used with the command "chfcmap...
    1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

    Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
    1 day ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Extend API support for the STaaS service Dashboard.

    The IBM STaaS Service comes with an extra dashboard for Storage Insights Pro. Unfortunately, all information displayed via the Dashboard GUI cannot be obtained via the API. Please extend the API functionality so that all information displayed in t...
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Improvement of mmnetverify for remote mounted filesystems

    mmnetverify seems to be created with the assumption that everyone is using adminMode=allToAll, and is using passwordless ssh for many of it's checks. This is problematic both to local cluster with adminMode=central (no passwordless ssh from client...
    2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

    When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
    3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    New Flash 4th Site command in 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    It is requested to provide a new command "Flash 4th Site" that would provide similar functionality to the "Flash 3rd Site" command. We would request that the 4 Site session, knowing the current 4th site, would carry out all of the steps required t...
    6 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Integrate SGC Hold and Release Commands into 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

    The recently delivered SGC Hold and Preserve Backups command and the SGC Release Backup Expiration command are extremely useful for certain clients. In a 4 site environment, the Scheduled Task to automate this process must either me modified upon ...
    6 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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