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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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create greater than 99 volumes in GUI simultaneously

Ability to create greater than 99 volumes simultaneously in the GUI. Current GUI interface is limited to 99, it would be useful to at least have 1500 simultaneous or better still the max current capable count of volumes.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

TSM LAN-Free backup to Disk devices support

Need TSM support LAN-Free functions to backup data to disk devices.Formerly, TSM using SANergy to achive this , but now SANergy is end of market. We need a feasible solution for the Lan-Free functions to disk support
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

SVC/V7K Global Mirror with Change Volumes and TPC 5.1

Please add support for SVC/V7K Global Mirror with Change Volumes to TPC 5.1.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

DS8000 DSCLI should allow query of current healt status of all the components

While logging in to the DS8886 GUI a coworker noticed that some of our DS8886's were in a 'service required' state. Apparently there was a failure in the service notification and the CE was not aware. After researching further we noticed several o...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

FCM: Clone Oracle DB on ASM.

Many Oracle installations are running over ASM. The possibility to do a clone of this databases is necessary.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Optionally don't show the alert 986020 regarding Thin-provisioned volumes space

The message of the event ID code 986020 is shown very often for Thin-provisioned volumes, and causes the event log sometimes to flood with a message that can be ignored. The client wants an option to prevent the message from being shown.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Tivoli TDP for ERP for Oracle: Support for RHEL 6

TDP for ERP (Oracle) should be enhanced to support installations running on RHEL 6.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 7 Delivered

IO group distribution for creating new volumes in a cluster with several io groups

If you create a single vDisk in succession in a SVC cluster with four io groups, they will be distributed cleanly over the IO groups. But if you create many vDisk in one go they all end up in an IO group. There should be a switch to synonymous wit...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server

It would be helpful if a TSM server could direct a TSM client to connect to another TSM server, either temporarily or permanently. Currently we have to change a TSM configuration file on a client server (dsm.opt) to change its default or find how ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

TSM4VE vCenterPlugin: Possibility to attach/restore volumes

Currently the TSM4VE vCenter Plugin only allows to restore a whole VM. To restore single volumes of a VM or to mount a volume in order to restore single files, a separate GUI (TSM4VE Recovery Agent) must be started. It is required to have this fun...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Delivered