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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GUI backup and restore option of library configuration

The only option to save (and eventually restore) the library configuration database today is to use the TS4500 CLI. It is Java based and Java is not allowed in some client installations because of security concerns. Moreover, in a TS7700 environme...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Ability to supress IWNR4005I messages in CSM console.

In CSM 6.3.4 message IWNR4005I is logged to the console for every logon to the CSM webui. Please consider allowing the suppression of the message for particluar users or entirely.
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Easy access to SVC portstats needed

By architecture the SAN plays an important role for a reliable function of Spectrum Virtualize. Monitoring of SAN counters is crucial for every Administrator to get a clear picture of the health of all communications within. Even we are often faci...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Customer wants to extend the time between node upgrades with the SVC

Customer had multiple servers go down during their last upgrade. They would like the time between node upgrades to be tunable instead of the standard 30 minutes in length. Ideally they feel that if they had more time they could complete the valida...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

storwize remote mirror bitmap space in hyperswap

in a hyperswap environment with heavy overprovisioning there is a lack of bitmap space for remote copy operations inside the hyperswap. we can extent flashcopy bitmap space to 2GB, but remotecopy is shared with other features an limited to 552 MB ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Display both the main (DKC) microcode and the (SVP) microcode on Hitachi storage arrays

Currently, storage insights only displays the svp firmware levels, which is not the firmware level of the array itself. It would be best to display both levels of firmware as they are two separate levels that normally are not the same.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Automated Backup of TS7700 database

Provide a way to allow customers to backup/restore the database and metadata for each VTS cluster within the grid. This needs to be a process that can be on demand or automated. This may be a duplicate of RFE 79372 but not sure if it included all ...
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Add more characters in MetroMirror name

Name of Mirror Relationship and Consistencygroup allows only 15 digits
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enable smnp test trap from SVC

Normally, when configuring snmp traps, there is a possibility to send a test trap. Such functionality does not exist in SVC.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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