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IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions.Supplemental to idea TS77-I-166.
2 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Add Transparent Cloud Tiering configuration and testing into the GUI or WUI

Adding a TCT screen to the GUI could include features such as: Provide customer visible indicator of which TCT port is currently active. Add TCT port throughput to DS8K performance dashboard. View/Change TCT port configurations without using DSCLI...
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Provide customer access to send ping commands down TCT interface links to test network connections without needing IBM to AOS into machine.

Customers currently have no access to test network connections for TCT ports on the DS8K. Providing an interface to send ping and traceroute commands out the TCT ports to test networking will save loads of time interfacing with support to perform ...
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270), only the current prim...
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

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.
4 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client com o Storage Protect 8.1.16 or posterior. Tivemos TS018215491 Quando vamos escolher o restore pela opção [ point in Time ] o mesmo da erro: ANS309E remote operation failed ...
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Node Designation/Role Listed in mmlscluster

Any node designation that is possible with the mmchnode command should be listed in the output of mmlscluster for that specific node. This will provide a quality of life improvement when figuring out exactly which node is serving which purpose. Fo...
9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.