IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

To enable Almalinux OS support on IBM Defender.

The is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open source community-supported computing platform, and AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, developed by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, production-grade enterprise...
about 24 hours ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

improve the "eeadm file state" performance

The customer uses' eeadm file state -q FILENAME' to check the file status to ensure that the file has been migrated to tape. Currently, the time required for this command cannot meet the business's needs, which will result in longer waiting times ...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

DS8k - WWPN/WWNN for Fibre channel Ports

According to the PLOGI (Port Login) and PRLI (Process Login) are used to establish connections between devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network).That means source and target WWNPN/WWNN are known. However, the details for the logged in links is only ...
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
25 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
9 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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