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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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IBM Storage Archive

Existing Archive Dashboard decommision

Current Archive Dashboard solution create data lost situation, so it was decide/plan to be decommisionned.What about customer who ever deploy it ?What about replacement solution of this function as this one was shortlist and expected during sale p...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Archive Submitted

Add a supported stale-mount state reconciliation/reset mechanism to IBM Storage Archive SDE for Windows

IBM Storage Archive Single Drive Edition for Windows should provide a supported mechanism to reconcile or reset its persisted drive/mount state after a tape drive temporarily disappears and is later re-enumerated. A reproducible failure mode exist...
21 days ago in IBM Storage Archive Submitted

Add an AI-powered intelligent archive lifecycle management and predictive data optimization capabilities in IBM Storage Archive to help organizations improve long-term data management, optimize storage utilization, strengthen compliance, and enhance archive retrieval efficiency.

As enterprise organizations continue generating massive volumes of business-critical data, long-term archive management has become increasingly complex. While IBM Storage Archive provides a reliable and scalable solution for tape-based data archiv...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Submitted

Storage Archive to query and refer to the active snapshot location instead of having it hardcoded to the default ./snapshots value

If the snapshot location is changed within Storage Scale from the default ./snapshots value (for instance by mmsnapdir scale -a --snapdir .newsnapshotlocation, then Storage Archive might be lost in trying to find snapshots in the default ./snapsho...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Under review

Authentication improvements

The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Allow to the replace command to reclaim tapes in parallel

Hi, From time to time we need to run the "eeadm tape replace" command to replace from the tape library, some tapes that the Storage Archive detect some read or write actions and decide that this tape is not healthy and it has to be removed and rep...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration

Error message to provide specific detail of problem

When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Not under consideration

REST consistency

The rest api is currently not consistent with the eeadm cli. This makes it difficult to automate things that rely on information the cli can output but the rest api doesn't. A few examples: 1. tasks https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-ee/1...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Not under consideration

When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration