Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 5527

Fibre Port Control from GUI on FS900 AE2/AE3 and FS9150

Prudential is asking for the following, in regards to the FS900s, and FS9150s: "There should  be a distinction between, Offline (link failure), Inactive(admin Down), Online and SFP not present status. And user should have ability to change th...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

No confidential information may be part of the storage snap transfered to support team.

Call Home SVC at level 7.6.1.5 The customer is a weapons company with very restrictive confidentiality rules. This company is requesting that, for Storage snaps transfers to support teams, no confidential information may be part of the transfer (l...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Restore Performance of an SQL Database using ISP4VE

When using Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment with Application Consistent Backup for SQL Databases, the restore Performance for SQL Database is far to slow.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

LTO9 media pre-calibration status on TS4300 gui

LTO9 medias need pre-calibration before they can used in production. TS4300 does not report pre-calibration status on it's media listing view. This should be reported on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration

Cloud Support for Spectrum Archive

Today, Spectrum Archive supports local and remote tape copies. The ability to send a copy to a cloud, either onsite or offsite, would also be beneficial.
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 5 Not under consideration

TSM Clean Frequency enhancement

Please allow a terabyte option in addition to gigabytes for the clean frequency for tape drives.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

FCM VMware: Provide ability to specify multiple values of MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV

We need to ability to customize MAX_VERSIONS for a group of datastores for XIV. We are limited to only one MAX_VERSIONS parm with XIV.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

TS7700 Logical WORM KPMG certification

Allow to configure retention period in data class, so volumes mounted in this class inherit this retention period. During the retention period, volumes cannot be scratched, deleted, ejected or overwritten. In addition, do not allow to decrease the...
over 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Multiple COPY backup types for TDP for SQL

Currently there is one database backup type for daily backups (full/differential) and one for copy backups. DBAs often require backups to be held for other retentions, and this currently can only be done by creating multiple TSM nodes. Additionall...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TS4500 access when LDAP enabled

TS4500 supports LDAP. It requires LDAP group with admin privileges to be created in Library as well as LDAP domain. After LDAP group creation and integrating access with LDAP the library is not accessible via local accounts. JPMC require both acce...
over 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration