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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results

Showing 47

Snapshot and volume management improvements

A recent sale to a non-IBM customer has shown just how poor our basic management capabilities are within the GUI.We were compared to their 5 year old Nimble array and we did not stand up well. Snapshot scheduling; Simple snapshots that are created...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Enhanced VM excludes for TSM for VE

Enhancement to TSM for VE set up to allow an include/exclude file for selective exclusion / inclusion of VMs from backup (similar to BAClient model).
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

TSM for VE needs better VM selection/filtering mechanisms.

When creating a new backup schedule in the TSM for VE plugin in VMware (v 6.4.0.1), the user's options for selecting VM's to be backed up are severely limited. The first limitation is the view by host or datastore. If you want to backup particular...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Add option to restrict email alerts to specific sessions

Please make it so that when configuring "Session State Change" alerts one can select specific sessions. In our shared environment, customers(or teams or applications) have emails configured to receive "Session state change". Currently though, all ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

V7000 Performance Monitoring for EACH MDisk and Volume

V7000 Performance Monitoring should have selectable details and panels for EACH MDisk and Volume, in order to let users see different behaviour of each environment/host type connected to the SAN
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

CSM Improve DS8000 Paths Interface

I would like to propose several enhancements to how the CSM DS8000 Paths screen is displayed and managed. 1) The DS8000 Paths screen has a lot of unused space when drilled down into a storage device list of paths, on my monitors at least half of t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.