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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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FlashCopy Manager should support also NetApp for Flash copies under Unix

The FlashCopy Manager supports currently only the IBM subsystems DS8000, SVC, V7000 and XIV. Many customers are using NetApp storage because of their comprehensive snapshot and replication functionality. These customers want to use TSM as the Unif...
over 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 5 Delivered

AIX mmdumpkthreads

mmdumptkreads currently uses kdb to dump the process stack, it would be more efficient to run a ps and execute procstack for each process.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Improve reporting for host objects in Spectrum Virtualize

It is currently very difficult to find out what IO groups and pools a given host uses on Spectrum Virtualize products
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Limitation on DS8880

IBM team, I need to see if I can request an enhancement for the DS8880. As you know, we have the Atos North American Mainframe Hub (NAMH). We ran into an issue that I have PMR 59316,227,000 opened for an issue that we are having for our client 7-1...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Add filefilter in Spectrum Scale (GPFS)

We would like to be able to use file filtering to avoid user to write MP3-MP4 and PST (outlook personal folder) on the GPFS file system (Spectrum Scale NAS software)
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Storwize session timeout requires refresh before login

Problem description: When session times out on web it presents login screen - if you type credentials the screen just refreshes...Current workaround: Remember to refresh screen before typing credentials if the session had previously timed out - or...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC & NetApp ontap 9.1

When the SVC 7.8 will support:1) NetApp ontap 9.1 system2) NetApp FAS9000 hardware?
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Avoid that port 1750 be enabled again during a code update

Following code update from R7.4.1 to R7.5.1, the customer realized thatport 1750 had been enabled again - most likely because such a code update, as of Appendix C of the code installation instructions to "to upgradeHMC Base Code only to a new 790 ...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Additional ID's for Storage Manager that are "Read Only"

A Financial Services Market client would like to make a formal request for additional ID's to Storage Manager. Currently the ID the client has allows a user to change / delete logical configuration; change / stop /start replication; and even power...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Change request of task priority.

On behalf of customer, IBM account team write,-Change task priority of backup tasks and reconcile task.Based on current design, reconcile and backup(snapshot) can not run parallel.During backing up, if the reconcile task starts backup task gets de...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered