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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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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Ability to hydrate volume group snapshots to existing volumes for subsequent days

Customer has come from A9000 to FS9500 and wanted to used Volume Group snapshots but found that he couldn't do subsequent rehydration onto known volumes so made it difficult to script nightly snapshots to perform backups on media server. We need t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Stagger Remote Copy Consistency Group cycles

Would like Spectrum Virtualize to automatically stagger the cycles of Remote Copy Consistency Groups (RCCG's). When using GMCV's, all volumes in the RCCG start a FlashCopy mapping at the exact same point-in-time when a new cycle is started for the...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

High density enclosure

Currently the mac number of drives per enclusre is 24 using the 2,5" drives. The DCS3700 can have up to 60 drives per enclose
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 increase visible size of RC group name in GUI Copy Services->Remote copy

In the SVC 8.4 GUI the remote copy consistency group name on the overview screen (copy services->remote copy) is limited to 11 characters which are then padded with multiple periods... (depending on the special characters used in the name) or t...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SAML / SSO Authentication

Support SAML to further enhance security and ease of management in environments managing hundreds of devices, or requiring enhanced security mandates.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Lockheed Martin - SVC Pool Rebalance

SVC Pool rebalance! This is a manual process today.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

IBM SVC - All node hardware errors should report to event log

IBM SVC does not have any visable logs to identify hardware errors. (CPU / Memory / Bus / Cards). this leave environment exposed to unknown risks.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Three-site replication

The ability to replicate a vdisk (using global- or metromirror) to multiple sites concurrently.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Update Spectrum Connect compatiblity

Update compatibility / interop for Spectrum Connect (SVC/vCenter).
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Forward Auditlog To Syslogserver

For security reason our systems in the data center have to send their auditlogmessages to centralized syslogservers.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered