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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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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add deduplication for storwize V7000

Deduplication would be a nice feature which would extend real time compression functionality
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FS9200 FQDN Support in GUI for NTP, LDAP

Client (Alex Offord) wishes for the GUI to properly support the FQDN support that is provided for LDAP and NTP.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FS9000 - FQDN Support for SKLM, SNMP, Email Relay, Syslog

Client (Alex Offord) wishes for GUI and DSCLI to support additional FQDN items including SNMP, Email Relay, SKLM, Syslog, and any others he has failed to mention.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DoD compliant Login Banner

The Federal Government requires a login banner to meet security requirements. This banner can be added to the current login splash screen currently being utilized. The following would need to be put into the splash Screen: “I've read & consent...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

No hostimpact during upgrade/maintenance of nodes (no paths offline)

No hostimpact during upgrade/maintenance of nodes (no paths offline) Two nodes in 1 IO group should be both connected to all ports on a sort of internal/external switch or module, so when a node would go offline all paths from host perspective sho...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

ODX Support for IBM SVC / Storwize Family

ODX Support for IBM SVC / Storwize Family
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Gemalto Key Manager Support for Encryption

Customer would like to implement encryption at rest using their preferred key manager - Gemalto. I had heard this was being tested. Could you please let me know when it will be supported.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Introduce the capability to exclude certain volumes from the volume-protection feature

The volume protection feature is a global setting to prevent volumes from being deleted unless there's been no I/O during a certain amount of time. We would like to have the option to have a volume exclusion list so the feature could be enabled wi...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

While starting a consistency group, a "CMMVC7102E" error does not disclose the names of problem secondary volume(s).

Normally starting a consistency group on a IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a fairly simple and straightforward process. However, occasionally you may run into an error condition where the consistency group is unable to start because of a confli...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Storwize V7000 support for T10 DIF / PI standard for open system operating systems

Storwize V7000 needs to support T10 DIF / PI standard to secure data integrity
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered