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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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Expand mmrsync to accept filelist

mmrsync accepts the filenames only as parameters. Extend it to also accept a filename containing a list of files to sync.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

DRP Pool -> Migrate vDisk between DRPs

Introduction of the migratevdisk command for DRP pools.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Smartcard Authentication for VE web GUI

Our organization enforces the use of smartcards or tokens to authenticate to servers, workstations, and applications. We are requesting that IBM add a smartcard option to the Spectrum Protect for VE "Web GUI".
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Use enterprise SATA drive in ECE

In our configuration, except SAS HDD/SSD and NVME, we also need to use enterprise SATA HDD/SSD as pdisk in ECE. These SATA drives can pass the ECE precheck for DpoFua and SCT ERC. The attachment is the list.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

SVC GUI enhancement request

In the SVC GUI - when viewing hosts:The host mappings column shows a no or yes and disk symbol. Suggested change:Also display the number of volumes that are lunmasked.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SPP PLUS: ENHANCE SPP TO UPDATE VM GUID INTO AN EXISTING BACKUP

-Enhance SPP plus to be able to update VM GUID into an existing backup.- An option that updates the globally unique identifier (GUID) for the virtual machine that are being backed up.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Improper Session Management - Simultaneous Sessions

This issue is related to same user opening multiple sessions either with different browsers and different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Needs more information

Add WAIT=YES and Nodename masking options to GENERATE DEDUPSTATS

I would like to request the addition of a WAIT=YES parameter and node name masking to the GENERATE DEDUPSTATS command. It is a long-running command and it would be nice to be able to script the QUERY DEDUPSTATS command to run immediately upon comp...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Need to backup very large EPIC DB files in less than 24 hours

Currently it takes over 36 hours to backup a 60TB file. Need a way to break up large files and mult-stream the segments to reduce the overall time to backup the EPIC database. Need it significantly below 24 hours.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration