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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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Change behaviour of "move nodedata" command so that when the destination storage pool has a copy storage pool setup data is moved to both primary and copy storage pools

Being able to "move nodedata" to both a destination storage pool and its copy storage pool would be useful to maintain at least to copies of the data when moving data. Using the backup storage pool command can sync both source and copy storage poo...
12 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Needs more information

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Needs more information

add a NTP server for the rsyslog time of TSSC to be synced with external NTP

When I logged in to TSSC on one of our devices I noticed that the syslog had printed that I had logged in 19 minutes before I actually had... After raising this with IBM they told me the following: The 3957 TSSC that we use to log in and out of th...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

Add Auto deploy option in client option sets

The idea is to manage AUTODEPLOY YES/NO/NO REBOOT on clien option set level.
22 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

Set Up virtual volumes Pools for different z/OS applications

We want to define different volume pools and address them via Storage Class, so that we can specify from the z/OS side which application (via Storage Class ACS routine) writes to which virtual volume pool (logical volume range). In this way, we ca...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Needs more information

Clean cache with migration when one copy is online

Customer store their data into two libraries, when one library is offline or failure, they can't clean storage scale cache with archive migration and have to wait for IBM repairing. While customer only have a little cache storage space, they have ...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Needs more information

Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Needs more information

volume formatting visibility

it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information