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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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FCM for VMWare lacks support for parallel offload backups to TSM

Parallel backups in a very large environment are mandatory and flashcopy manager in a small vmware environment is really not needed.So in an large environment with one vmware datacenter and more than 2000 vms not being able to run parallel backup ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

Deliver sha2 and md5 hash for software downloads

To ensure authenticity and immutability of software downloaded from IBM web- and ftp sites, a hash should be provided in a secure space or via email.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Reduce time to remove a failed disk in GPFS

Please can you look to reduce the time it takes to remove a disk from a GPFS file system in the particular scenario when the disk has already failed (and so is suspended or down) and the data on it has been evacuated onto other nodes as restripeOn...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 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...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DS8900F System Summary Export lacking key information

Trying to manage Safeguarded Copy capacity. It is possible, with the showckdvol command, to see how much Safeguarded Virtual capacity is defined and how much is used. RFE 115173 asks that some capacity information be exposed on the lsckdvol comman...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Exclude nodes from expiration

Currently expiration runs by node or domain or everything. Node should have option to be included or excluded in standard expiration.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

Multi-tenancy Capability with SVC

We are building the accounts for the AIX team to use to start their jobs. We want to be able to lock down jobs/volumes to certain logins
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Add Time Locks to Flash Copy Sessions to prevent an overwrite of FC data

CSM will add a property to FC sessions that will prevent users from being able to "reflash" the session in x hours (similar to SGC) This option prevents customers from reflashing over the last "good" flash CSM will add a property to FC sessions to...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Resync an entire Remote copy consistency group

In the event of loss of consistency due to the loss of volumes (for whatever reason), it would be better to force the entire consistency group to resync rather than the current process of deleting and re-creating all of the relationships in the co...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered