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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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Define a launch window by SLA

The need is to be able to set an SLA time from which everything left in the queue in the SLA is canceled.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Alert for Consistency Group status change

Product: Storage insight PROActor: users want to be alerted for GlobalMirror stoppedDescription: we want to have an alert for monitoring Global mirror status change. In details we want to be alerted when we a consistency group goes to stoppedstauts
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING

CSM does not support a FlashCopy DUMPCONDITIONING session.
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

SVC Autorestart should give timer indication in UI while suspended if it is set to restart.

CSM 6.1.x introduced the functionality of session restart during 1720/1920 type errors. There is also a way to set a timer on how long the session will attempt a restart. CSM should have an easier way to determine if the session is pending a resta...
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Export Library Activity from GUI and REST API

Talked with Jason Peipelman and IBM RAS engineer about this request and they all agreed this is a good idea, not just this product but all library products. This Library Activity is visible on GUI, but customer would like to download this informat...
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

Implement recommission* node in OC

Missing the possibility to recommission a node or vm with the OC. Only the command decommission is available.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

SCDM On IBM Spectrum Virtualize can not do FC/GM Workflow

when crating an SLA selecting Spectrum Virtualize, can not doa FC then GM workflow, this is fully supported by the storage
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM 3-site replication target support

on FS storage when a 3-site replication is setup, SCDM can not do any action on the 3-site replication target volume
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Independent Certificates for Key Servers

Need to separate the client and server certificates for SafeNets Gemalto Key Servers. Currently, they are on the same certificate.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration