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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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Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs

GEICO is in the process of migrating from older Scale infrastructure to an ESS infrastructure. Non-disruptive migration is blocked when Migrate system pool from non-vdisk to vdisk NSDs
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow more to be done through Operations Center

You have a perfectly fine start to a really useful front end to Tivoli in the Operations Center but you can barely DO anything with it. I don't want to dig around and deal with 3 line long commands to accomplish simple tasks that are point and cli...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication status

Currently Spectrum Protect only show in the reports the status of a VM in compliance with replication policy but a person can not tell the % outstanding to replicate and or the % completed this makes reporting on the environment status much harder...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Request to add native Sybase Support to Spectrum Protect (DP for Sybase)

Sybase produces Enterprise class RDBMS solutions for a variety of uses cases and industries. While perhaps not as pervasive as MS SQL or Oracle, the product does appear fairly frequently in customer environments. While there are a variety of metho...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

Change default to Power On VM for clone and production restores

Restore functionality - Power on VM - Production & clone restore powers on Shouldn't be default to power on as Power On VM was not ticked. Default should be leave powered off unless that option is ticked
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Linux command for managing Spectrum Discover

Most UNIX/Linux users are used to work on the command line. I would like to propose the following idea: create a command called "sdcli" (Spectrum Discover cli) or "dmcli" (Data Management cli) which can be a shell or Python script and can be insta...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Support for proxy for Spectrum Control

Support SC (Spectrum Control) work thru Proxy. Lot of times i
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

MOVE DATA command enhancement

The enhancement I'd like to see is a PREVIEW option on the MOVE DATA command. The preview would summarise which tapes will be required for the move but would not actually move any data. Knowing which tapes will be required can be important in situ...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Management IP issues in a Stretched SVC cluster

If the system is in a Enhanced Stretched Cluster or a HyperSwap configuration, an option to have all inbound and outboud Ethernet traffic (management, call home, etc) flow from Ethernet Port 2 should the control node be on site 2. This would allow...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration