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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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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from our clients to implement LDAPS on all instances (hardware and software), which use LDAP authentication.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for nested LDAP groups

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

New fuction for IBM SAN Volume Controller: "grep"

SVC command line does not provide the "grep" function included.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster - Hosts Site Awareness

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster provides site awareness to SVC Nodes and Storage Controllers, allowing an optimized IO routing and policing between the SVC Nodes and the back-end Storage arrays, however it lacks Site associations for Host objects. ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Show Raidtype in V7000 GUI

would be very handy if we could see the Raid type in the V7000 GUI (to see quickly the underlying RAID level)
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase Number of change volumes

Increase number of supported change volumes with SVC low bandwidth mirroring from currently 256 supported volumes up to 4096 volumes.SVC stretched cluster in combination with SVC's nearly synchronous Global Mirror: Low Bandwidth mirroring to furth...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storage Insights Monitor role Read Only

Hello, This is a feature request To use Storage Insights / Spectrum Control and monitor your Storwize V7000 family, you need to add the Storwize in Storage Insights / Spectrum Control with ad administrator role. When using Storage Insights this is...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Lun expansion without deleting existing mirror relationship

Enable the posibility of lun expansion for luns that are in a mirror relationship.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 512

The current limit of 512 compressed volumes per I/O group imposes challenges in the field with customers that want to increase coverage of compression in their environment by increasing the number of compressed volumes that they already use. In ma...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered