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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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Metro DR configuration in Fusion SDS with internal container native storage (ODF/FDF)

Two of our largest banking customer in France are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment based on their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several data centers. This means primarily the setup of a two site Metro DR confi...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

SnapDiff backup for volumes mounted to a junction point

NetApp's best practice recommends that volumes on a svm should be mounted to some junctions points not to the root volume (/). The result is that people cannot backup the FlexVols using SnapDiff. I understand APAR IT11729 has a fix for volumes mou...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Simultaneous-write CMOD / Dual Copy on Archive Spectrum Protect Server

Currently we have the API Client in use for storing ARCHIVE Object on Spectrum Protect Server as archive object. During normal operation we defined on Storage Pool level simultaneous-write on all. We found a lack on functionality, when these CopyP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Multiple schedules backup per VM Tags

There is not possible to backup VMs with multiple VM Tags. The Tag category "Schedule" is in settings "One tag". Using tags is in this reason very limited.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enable cipher encryption on Fusion when doing remote mount of scale filesystems in Global data platform

When working with banking clients, all communication must be encrypted. Scale remote mounts can be done by using CIPHER encrpyion but the default used by fusion is authonly. We need to allow cipher auth in the remote mount fusion is doing when wor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

CSM Co-existance with lower-level or different level CSM.

2. The ability for CSM software to co-exist with a lower-level or different-level CSM software in a CSM configuration where they are sharing one or the same CSM database.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SCDM -Change virtual restore SCSI controller from VMware LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual

SCDM RFE - Currently, when SCDM performs restores of the virtual environment, it creates a SCSI controller in the vCenter that is set to LSI Logic SAS. The request is to change the SCSI controller from LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Request the ability to read and write C07 style tapes behind the TS7770 including previously written C07 tapes.

CTBC Bank currently use three TS7740 with GRID connection, we are proposing three TS7770 to replace them.Since CTBC did implement backup 3-2-1 policy. After daily backup jobs they did submit other backup jobs to physical copy those that need to be...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Open I/O slots to all logical libraries

IBM problem number866018YV3V TS4300 currently does not allow I/O slots to be visible to all logical libraries defined in the tape library. I/O can only be assigned to a single logical library. This is different to how other TS Tape Libraries work ...
about 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration