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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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Support for multiple AD services on one GPFS/Scale cluster

Allowing support for more than one Active Directory service per GPFS cluster would be extremely helpful in those situations where we are serving customers who are trying to create a shared storage repository for multiple sub-groups (departments, r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Copy export cannot be operated unless premig queue has not be initialized

System: z/OS V2.1Hw:TS7720T(3957-VEB)Micro Level: 8.33.3.14.0 Our customer has more than 900,000 lvols.When premig queue initialization, we can not use copy export function about 5 days.Our customer is using copy export for disaster recovery.Not w...
almost 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Delivered

[BDA]support data locality in a shared-storage environment

This RFE is requesting that GPFS be modified to support data locality in a shared storage environment by modifying the FPO featureset to support multiple NSD servers per NSD. This is requisite for leveraging data locality in a scale-out environmen...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

TDPO Client Sun Solaris 11 x86

We need a new Version of TDPO Client for Sun Solaris 11 x86.Our TSM client instances are on version 6.3.3.100
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Delivered

Automatic Disk Replacement

We met with IBM yesterday (Christopher Maestas) and he mentioned a feature within ESS that we would like to have accelerated. It's the capability of doing automatic disk replacement without any admin intervention. That is something we really would...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Delivered

Spetrum Virtualize default vdisk protection to off from 7.4 onwards

VDISK Protection Default (vdisk_protection_enabled  yes /no) Current default is NO starting with V7.4 onwards, Volume protection ensures that some CLI actions (most of those that either explicitly or implicitly remove host-volume mappings or ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Create RAID Wizard Defaults to RAID5 and allows storage from multiple pools without warning

The Create RAID Array Wizard in Spectrum Virtualize defaults to RAID5 creation. It also allows you to select storage from any number of pools without warning. This should be warned against; pools that are too large will increase the failure domain...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Prevent Harmful actions related to NPIV ports

For NPIV prevent going from transition to disabled or transition to enabled mode on iogroups . If there are servers/hosts with any paths to both physical and virtual WWPNs  This will cause an impact and possible outage.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Volume Format default to enabled

The volume format was default disabled till 7.5. Enabled is now the default and a 1TB volume can take 6 days to complete with the default syncrate. Changing the sync rate can reduce this to 4.5 hours. This can cause severe impacts to pre-existing ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

GMCV limit is 256 too small vs. GM 8192 , needs more GMCV at least 1024

Hello,we hit the Global Mirror with Change Volume limit. 256 is too small vs. Global Mirror 8192. We need more GMCV, at least 1024.regards, Gabor
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered