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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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DEACTIVATE FILESPACE

Based on the principle of new commands, DEACTIVATE and DECOMMISSION, which act on the nodes,we should be able to go down to the file system level.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

backup stgpool parallelization

I would request to have backup stgpool of a source pool of type=disk parallelized either on a per volume base (as backup stgpool acts if the source pool is of type=file) or on the amount of data to process. When running backup stgpool with a sourc...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add completed timestamp on failed administrative events

Add "completed" timestamp to administrative events if the administrative schedule fails.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Node Replication & DR - Enable client backup to the Target TSM Server

Enable the BA/TDP clients to send backup data to the target server in case of a failure of the primary server (node replication enabled)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Improvment for FICON Adapter error corretion process.

The customer requested improvement for FICON Adapter error correction process when the link status goes to unstable. Please refer to the case, TS010589231. The support team said, "If customer insists to change an unstable fscsi path to disable, Yo...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL

Requesting a new command, and related alerting/monitoring and opcenter handling. SET FILESPACEATRISKINTERVAL node_name filespace,filespace,filespace [NAMEType=FSID|SERVER|UNICODE] TYPE=[DEFAULT|BYPASSED|CUSTOM] Interval=value
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

DS8K Should Be Intelligent Enough to Compare Source and Target Data for Remote Copies

When a relationship between a source and target system is accidentally lost, the DS8K must re-copy all the data. Instead the DS8K should be able to compare the source and target data so that only changed data or missing structures are copied. This...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale make inodes allocated to root file system able to be reallocated.

We would like to request an enhancement that will allow for inodes already allocated to the root file system to be reallocated to independent file sets.
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Utilization percentage of areas used by the product to store indexes should be displayed in the main product GUI. Not displaying this in a simple and readily available form can result in granular recoveries not being possible

If the utilization for the areas containing the lucern database (/data3 by default) was displayed within the main GUI it would be much simpler to keep track of issues that may affect recovery options further down the line. This would benefit all b...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Allow Windows Server to re-export Spectrum Scale mount and serve SMB/CIFS

Allow a Windows NSD client (server licensed) to share the Spectrum Scale mount it has from a Windows NSD Server.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration