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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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Improvment for FICON Adapter error corretion process.

The customer requested improvement for FICON Adapter error correction process when the link status goes to unstable. Please refer to the case, TS010589231. The support team said, "If customer insists to change an unstable fscsi path to disable, Yo...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Cloudtype S3 IA

Support for off-premise cloud container pool cloudtype for AWS S3 IA storage. Currently the only option is for S3.AWS offers S3 IA as an additional storage option - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-new-lower-cost-s3-storage-opti...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale AFM support for GCP

AFM file/object copy to GCP. Better: use AFM to TIER to GCP
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow GDPS ksys in the IGNOREGOPS

Allow GDPS ksys in the IGNOREGOPS list since GDPS provides the KSYSOFF=YES setting.
almost 3 years ago in TDMF z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Rebuild used extents with DRAID

The current design in DRAID is rebuild all of exents,even most of extents don't have real data.Customer hope to DRAID can support optimize mode that only rebuild used space.With optimize mode, rebuild time can be shortened significantly. This is v...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Storage Insights to display PPRCPATH Pairing Information from the DS8000

We already have Copy Data statistics that pull in a wide range of information with regard to copy pairs, etc. Would it be possible to include PPRC Paths and their pairings at the LCU level, just like we can retrieve from DSCLI and the GUI? This wo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Simplify and Enhance the Copyset Build Process using the GUI Copyset Build Wizard

We utilize CSM in our environment a lot and that utilization is increasing. Typically and probably for most users, we build the session and then have to go out to excel or some other method externally to build the .csv to build the copyset pairing...
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Proof of Tape encryption

Since IBM made the decision to remove encryption from TSM4VE backups, we were forced to enable physical tape encryption for client data. There is currently no means to verify that a physical volume has been encrypted. The only method within Spectr...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Support for HTTP proxy on fusion baclkup to S3

More and more customers wants to do fusion backups to Public S3 to be able to recover environments offprem, but 99 of them are using HTTP proxy to validate access to outside world. Support needed for HTTP proxy with validations usage when configur...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

TSM Snapdiff backup and usage of Snapdiffchangelog in Stagingdirectory

First concerns is with the stagingdirectory itself. In documentation for BA client (7.1.3) is the following statement:"The stagingdirectory option defines the location where the client can keep anydata that it generates to perform its operations. ...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration