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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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Spectrum Virtualize lacks node awareness

There is no intelligence around node restarts. If the other node in an IOgrp is restarting to recover for aforementioned error the Storwize will not wait for the restart to complete and carelessly restarts the secondary node before the first is fi...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Limit number of login attempts or have lockout feature

Customer has had penetration testing performed against a V7000 Gen 2 and the results which came back from XForce Red team were the following: No User Account Lockout Feature (admin interface) Have spoken with Jamie Pryde (Storwize Developer) and h...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DS8 Create Volumes GUI from Host View Should Allow Space Efficient Volumes

From the DS8880 GUI, when we go to Create Volumes from a host in the Hosts or Volumes by Host screen, we cannot choose Space Efficient volumes when creating a volume. There is no option for it in the normal volume creation window and the Custom vo...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Support for special characters in passwords

Windows AD supports more characters in passwords than SVC. When LDAP authentication is enabled, and AD passwords containes (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/), the login will fail. Please allow password complexity to match that of Windows...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

New fuction for IBM SAN Volume Controller: "grep"

SVC command line does not provide the "grep" function included.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

QoS Throttle Settings Should be enabled for Child Pools and to inherit for all volumes in that pool.

1. Currently QoS Settings is for Pools, Hosts and Volume level, for Pools its is per Node, and not per Cluster. 2. QoS settings should exist per child pools the way it was earlier present till code level 8.2.x with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. 3. Also...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster - Hosts Site Awareness

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster provides site awareness to SVC Nodes and Storage Controllers, allowing an optimized IO routing and policing between the SVC Nodes and the back-end Storage arrays, however it lacks Site associations for Host objects. ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from our clients to implement LDAPS on all instances (hardware and software), which use LDAP authentication.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for nested LDAP groups

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered