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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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New commands to control SSH usage

the ability to monitor / prevent SSH sessions from interfering with functional access and processing of background workload
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support Volume Expansion For More Platforms in Spectrum Virtualize Family

Currently, Spectrum Virtualize products (SVC, etc) only support volume expansion for AIX and Windows hosts. Other Operating Systems, such as Linux, support volume expansion. IBM should expand their support statement to include those.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Implement Target Port NPIV

Target Port NPIV would allow a Storage Engineer to put multiple physical WWN's and assign a virtual WWN that would in turn get zoned to hosts. This would simplify the amount of paths a host has to manage and make the storage system more resilient ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Logon Limit

It is a requirement that user accounts are locked after 5x failed logon attempts
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

V7000 Logon Limit

It is a requirement that user accounts are locked after 5x failed logon attempts
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Single GUI to manage multiple Storwize V3700 Storage Controllers

Multiple Storwize V3700 Storage Controllers require multiple GUI browsers to manage each controller separately. This is not user friendly and there is no means to get the status of all Storage Controllers on a single browser. Dell provides this ab...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC ability to select multiple hosts field is too small to see long hostnames

SVC ability to select multiple hosts is not good enough, the field is too small to see long hostnames and no grouping can be done
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Disk encryption capabilities with SVC

Please provide disk encryption capabilities when using SVC and the backed disk controllers do not have encryption capabilities
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase scalabilty of SVC Change Volumes (SYS4942)

IBM GTS SO requests STG to increase scalability of SVC GM CVs.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storwize V7000 Microcode Update behavior

Change the Storwize V7000 microcode update behavior. The client should be able to decide by his own how long the delay between a node upgrade should be during a microcode upgrade. Without using the manual V7000 upgrade procedure. Therefore it shou...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered