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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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DS8886 Physical Design

We had been facing issues to propose DS8886 in the country, especially on the 46U height rack configuration where some of data centers cannot meet the height requirements. While DS8886 has the 40U configuration option via RPQ, again it triggers ot...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Success/Failure of VM backups

Currently success/failure rates of individual VM backups via the proxy are not recorded. I'd like this recorded and shown in either the Admin Centre or TSM Monitoring/Reporting server.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Reserve/Release Support for HyperSwap

MUFG Bank, the former name was BTMU, would like to use z/OS HyperSwap among multiple SYSPLEXes.And MUFG Bank has a shared volumes between multiple SYSPLEXes, it is a strong requirement to maintain it. To achieve the objective, MUFG Bank need the f...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Support Crypto Event Logging and enable Audit logs to be forwarded to the Syslog Server

Currently, V7000 do not generate any events for the security and crypto related activities (e.g.) encryption enabled, disabled, KeyServer deleted, Key is removed, Key is deleted, unable to retrieve keys from the KeyServer etc.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Request RHEL 6.6 support for FCM 4.1.x:

Request RHEL 6.6support for Flash copy manager 4.1x
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Delivered

Retain by objects versions in primary Pools. Data lifecycle optimization.

Allow primary storage pool to store only ACTIVE versions, X inactive versions or XX days of inactive versions. Mark and Migrate to next storage pool only the inactive versions.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Simplify file-level recovery

Simplify file-level recovery
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Delivered

TSMVE - File level restore - Linux proxy

TSMVE v7.1.1 - File level restore af Linux server fails when issuing "mount" command from web GUI.Linux version of proxy is RHEL 6.5 Seems like LVM command fails. Upgrade to support RHEL 6.5 / 6.6 requested. RHEL 6.3 is outdated (3 yrs) and can no...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

V5030 RAS improvements

My customer had an incident with a V5030 machine in which one of the 2 controllers (canister) failed and it impacted the performance. They opened the PMR 41653,100,838 and after the logs analysis IBM support decided to restart the canister to solv...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered