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enable object expiration policy configuration from the manager UI - onpremises ICOS

We have some vaults that requires immutability and objects to be expired by ICOS. Even after enabling object expiration on the storage pool and on the vault and configuring the retention, the objects do not expire. IBM said we also need to configu...
10 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Submitted

Enable Open Table Format support with Apache Iceberg

As data lakehouse architectures become increasingly prevalent, the need for open table formats that support ACID transactions, schema evolution, and time travel is critical. This proposal suggests integrating Apache Iceberg into IBM Cloud Object S...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Future consideration

Add Backup and Tiering Capabilities to COS to Backup Buckets or Tier Objects to other S3 or S3 Glacier Systems, e.g. IBM Deep Archive

If COS is used as a primary storage for some kind of data, like document management systems or archive data for health applications, it is important or necessary by governmental rules to have a second copy of the data or an air gapped backup of th...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Not under consideration

Synchronous mirroring over 2 locations in one IBM Cloud site for block data as a foundation for availability

Background Currently we running + 100 customers with one or several LPARS each (Power Server with IBMi). We would like to migrate to IBM Cloud. These customers run mainly their ERP system in IBMi. The ERP system acts like a business hub, with a lo...
about 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Block Storage Planned for future release

Show more util metrics in cloud monitoring about the use of the File Storage

Hello, now, in cloud monitoring, we can see only metrics for read and write operations, but we think that that other operations, like delete, open, etc, are important to know the activity of the file share. We have several FS with a few RW operati...
5 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / File Storage Under review

Enhance Object Storage Performance

The performance of IBM Cloud Object Storage buckets is currently suboptimal, especially for workloads requiring faster access and throughput. It would be highly beneficial to introduce configurable performance tiers, so users can choose between co...
about 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Future consideration

add a command line timeout option when using putty and SU level access

Inactive sessions close off, which is fine, however when working with IBM support and multiple putty sessions are open its often difficult to keep them alive so adding the timeout option would alleviate this. we increase timeouts on IBM Brocade sw...
9 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Under review

UI options in portal - for Rename, Move files between buckets of same COS instance

I see that there is an API for COS to move objects between one bucket to another bucket of same instance. I guess it allows users to define the new file name to be used to copy to another bucket. However, when i review the similar options, we do n...
almost 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage Not under consideration

Alerts for space consumed in file systems

It would be very useful to be able to receive alerts when the use of a file storage exceeds a quota set by the user. Currently you can receive alarms for Snapshots capacity, it would be equally useful to receive these types of alerts for the gener...
over 6 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / File Storage Not under consideration

Storage area - export CSV/XLS

it would be utilile to implement beautiful various subsections Storage ( Block Storage / Files Storage ) implement an xls/csv export.
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Storage Not under consideration