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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 SVC Port Intelligence

One of the IBM SVC port had errors (numbers loss of frames, buffer credits, link loss event). This caused one of the disk on windows server 2016 to go offline. THe request is to built an intelligence in SVC product itself to disable the port if th...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

would like a ballance stgpooldir command

This occurs when adding directories for added space to a spectrum protect container. The existing directories are very full, and the newly added directories remain very empty. There is no balancing of data across the newly added and existing direc...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Fusion HCI Management Server

The Fusion HCI Rack should have a dedicated 1U Management server. This would be a low cost Linux server, single socket. The server would have the provision code as well as remote support tools. This could include remote access for IBM support, sim...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

Query files content of a container

Be able do list the files stored in directory/cloud container.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Restore VM to the max. possible configuration in case of any issues detected instead to force restore only to minimal config

We have now experienced several situations where VM's were restored with only a minimal configuration because of problems (e.g. maximum number of available ports in port group was reached, unrecognized new parameters in VM config etc.). For furthe...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

ability to use SSH for Brocade switches

The current way to add brocade switch/fabrics is only by HTTP or HTTPS. Without the ability to use SSH we can not use Insights features since HTTP and HTTPS has been disabled in our environment.
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add 'setcontactinfo' to DSCLI on DS8900 series

Implement a command to set and update call home contact information on DS8900 series DSCLI. Update Name, Email, Phone, Address, etc. Similar to chsacfg command on HMCs
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

S3 to Tape

Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 1 Submitted

Create new Satellite clusters in Fusion HCI from IBM Cloud console

Enable creation of NEW IBM Cloud Satellite location in customers IBM Fusion HCI environment from the IBM Cloud Console. This could be enabled by having a agent on Fusion HCI the customer connect to IBM Cloud Satellite console. The agent is allowed...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Create Fusion HCI virtual machines from the Cloud Satellite

Today you must first access Fusion HCI to create host for IBM Cloud Satellite, then go to IBM Cloud and create location and files/scripts, then return to Fusion to load the files to attach them to IBM Cloud Satellite and finally return to IBM Clou...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration