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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Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from a client to implement all IBM tooling along with Spectrum Protect (8.1.2) via LDAPS. We have successfully proved the current form of integration with StartTLS but the client in question is a bank and has concerns around ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Support of VVOL Replication and QoS for Spectrum Virtualize

Hi, I would like to ask support related of Spectrum Virtualize integration with VMware.Product: Spectrum VirtualizeCustomer : We're work with a S1 Account, Serpro, who will buy Storage and Virtualization solution for refresh their environment.Cust...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add number of mounts to REST GET DataCartridges response

With the new media lifecycle information provided in mount history report and via REST, clienst will also want to know the number of mounts for cartridges. The mount history report provides the mount count, the REST API doesn't. For automation pur...
12 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud (SV4PC) - AWS GP3 support

client (BP) have moved AWS GP2 to GP3 since GP3 was introduced DEC 2020. GP3 are 20% lower costs per GB month than GP2 and provide 3000 IOPS v's 100 at GP2. This makes GP3 now the default choice for our AWS client. Even with SV4PC data reduction ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Backup of an Individual VM in an SLA Policy

Customer requires the ability to backup an individual VM in an SLA.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Delivered

Upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights

Would like to be able to upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights. These are necessary to investigate issues on DS8000 and require to be generated rapidly (contents are rapidly overwritten). As of today, Storage Insights offers on...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Need ability to rebalance volume extents when adding more MDisks to an existing storage pool

When adding MDisks to an existing storage pool for SWV7K or SVC we do not automatically rebalance the extents volumes' are using from the pool thus we get hotspots and imbalance in utilization. We have had request to add this to SVC since 2003 and...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 15 Delivered

gpfs.snap option to add case number and upload to IBM

It would be nice to have an option in gpfs.snap that would take a case number and then upload the snap output once it has been created. Would remove some manual steps... think of how much collective time would be saved with this feature!! -Bryan
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Capacity on demand enhancement

Today's design of TS7770 Capacity on demand with FC 5262 and 5263 is not flexible enough as it is not aligned with the hardware capacity. E.g. in a six-drawer configuration the cache capacity is 472 TB but only 400 TB can be enabled by above FCs. ...
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 5 Delivered

CSM does not show single failed PPRC path in overview console

CSM console is the main Monitoring tool for all z/OS storage related issues. Recently, we lost one of the PPRC paths but this error was not visible in the overview console. The seesion overview console showed everything as normal (no warning and n...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Delivered

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