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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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Alerting method for the status of data collectors

It would be useful when a data collector has stopped randomly, having an alerting method would allow us to rectify this and get the collector working again.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Functionality already exists

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Spectrum Control

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Spectrum Control. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Future consideration

Make VSNAP Application Independent of OS Kernel

ISPP VSNAP Application on Physical Server is bound to specific Kernel Version. Upgrade of Redhat Version cause Application to fail and it doesnot come up.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O.The new statistics should be reported for the mdisks by node.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration