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 Protect Data Retention should be able to delete Copy Storage Pool Volumes

    In Spectrum Protect Data Retention it is not possible to delete any data manually, which is the key functionality of the product.In case of duplicating the data stored (i.e. on tape) we use Copy Storage Pools. To allow an exchange of the underlyin...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

    Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

    SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

    Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Management interface bond (port-channel)

    For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    File Level Restore Enhancements

    Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

    Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Allow more than one NTP server in Spectrum Virtualize Products

    Most products that require time synchronization allow more than one NTP server to be specified. Spectrum Virtualize products only allow one server and that only via the IP address. Here, IBM has to make improvements and allow more than one server....
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    Provide the ability to use an external key manager instead of GSKit.

    This will enable customers to use key managers that are certified for enterprise use.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Superuser account into ROBO environments for update purposes

    We are currently running v7.1.2_u3 on most of our Defender infra and are currently deploying 7.3.x. We quickly ran into an issue in our ROBO deployments, where our original instances were (are) running on a 81GB OS disk and the new image needs to ...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Nommage des snapshots via le GUI

    Par l'interface graphique, on ne peut pas nommer les snap comme on le veut, qd on clique sur take snapshot au niveau d'un volume groupe, cela devrait proposer d'entrer un nom
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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