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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Manual Classification of Storage Devices leads to many performance impacts

Storwize Products require that users manually classify the storage to a tier. This is prone to human error across dozens to hundreds of definitions. This has the potential to cause performance impacts via EasyTier with as little as one mdisk in th...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Improved software quorum handling for all Spectrum Virtualize and Storwize products.

At the moment there is only the .jar file to download, but no proper instructions for implementation as a service on the supported operating systems. Likewise, updating the file when changes are made is a manual process; an automatic update should...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Need steps on how we can integrate SPserver with QRADAR SIEM for application threat detection

Useful in integration of QRADAR SIEM with the sp server. And what events to be monitored for the threat detection on sp server?
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Customisable Storwize ssh idle session timeout

Customisable ssh idle session timeout for all storwize products
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Global Mirror direction with mapped volumes

If a customer instigates a Global Mirror start replication request in the wrong direction, they can inadvertantly write over production volumes with zeroes from the DR site to the Production site.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

RFE 81: Flash copy incremental setting

Incremental flash copy is good but when you break one of the chain then all the rest of the chain will be useless and pointless having them, we need to improve that and deleting any chain should not affect the rest of the change so there are no de...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

IOPS throttling for child storage pool level - multitenancy support for SVC

Working on a complex project in UAE. A new storage infrastructure is planned based on SAN Volume Controller and multiple tiers on backend storage : DS8K, V7K, V5K.This is a cloud environment comprising of VDI and PMC domains, where storage, networ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Increase number of Mdisks

Currently SVC limits the number of compressed volumes to 200 per IOgroup or 800 per cluster
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase the overall number of flashcopy consistency groups:

The number of FlashCopy consistency groups needs to be raised from 128 to at least the number of available GM consistency groups.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

"DATABASE_MEMORY like" option in profile CLONING section

It should be possible to clone SAP/DB2 environment to another environment without requiring the same amount of memory just because of the check/recovery phase of the cloning process.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Delivered

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