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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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Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

command line for the admin console gui for IBM Storage Copy Data Management software

We would like to automate the backup of the Catalog Manager in the Backup Catalog . Currently we need to log into the gui and click backup daily. We might miss this over weekends and would be a big issue if we restore an old catalog. We have used ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Under review

IBM SP4C - Automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process

Customer has requested the ability for IBM SP4C to automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process. While the current restore functionality works, it does not automatically restores tabs to their previous state, requiring users t...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 1 Under review

SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Policy Based replication - Keep the target volume mapped to the host when the source volume is removed from the source volume group

On Policy Based replication, When I remove a volume from the source volume group, it should only remove the volume from the target volume group, the volume should not get removed from the array or mapping. It should still be available under the ho...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to limit io per user for gpfs fs for a node/server

Client need the ability to impose restriction on IO that a user can open on a compute server via cgroup or any other method. They currently have cpu and ram limit per user but users seem to overload io request that retards system responds.
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review