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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Manually select a specific snapshot and offload for long-term retention

Manually select a specific backup/snapshot and offload it for long-term retention.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Output of prepare command need to be send via OC email or copied to an S3 target to support Airgap protection

Output of prepare command need to be send via Operation Center email report (for multiple servers) or copied to an S3 target (e.g. prepare devclass=cloud) to support Airgap protection. Optionally the S3 bucket should be WORM protected.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux

Support for performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux on SI.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Report Spectrum Scale Event if FD hard Limit of Ganesha server is above the threshold.

Ganesha NFS server has a limit of max. open files, which is calculated by 80% of the maxFilesToCache parameter. If Ganesha Server is reaching this limit, Ganesha NFS server will stop working and all NFS clients will loose access to data. In curren...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

ISP DP for SQL Powershell in AlwaysON Environment / restore Script

This Script (Command Line Interface) allows us to do faster restore compare to the Graphical User Interface. MMC GUI has long wait time when restore inactive backup's as described in the case (TS004928519). In a case of ransomware we can't accept ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Provide More Granular DS8 Capacity Reporting for Storage Insights Hosts and Volumes

Please provide the ability to capture capacity information for hosts and volumes at a more granular level, eg hourly/sample vs just a single daily entry. The array overall we can see capacity data at least to an hourly level, so this would allow u...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

LCP : Dynamic Management (increase and decrease) of Safeguarded Capacity

This idea would benefit all IBM z customers who are using, or who are considering implementing Logical Corruption Protection (aka z Cyber Vault) of data hosted on DS8000 storage subsystems. It would be of particular value to large installations wh...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Ability to Copy or Tier Storage pool data of File Device class type to S3 compatible COS bucket with Retention Lock set

As we know it is difficult for Spectrum Protect to manage dedup extents when stored or tiered to a cloud container storage pool and is a major development work, IBM developers may think of introducing this functionality which may be quicker and ea...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to view capacity info as z/OS reports it

Insights is great for viewing info (real time and historical) at the device / storage system level similar to the gui for the DS8K. However that is not the most useful info for day to day operations of these devices defined to z/OS. Insights does ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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