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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    Allow customer to choose the amount of memory allocated to CSI driver

    Customer during provisioning of a large number of volumes from within OpenShift to FlashStorage FS9500 on the back-end, hit a limit related to the amount of memory allocated to the CSI driver by default. The customer would like to be able to selec...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Balanced usage of tape drive generations. Changing behaviour of librarymanager when selecting drive for tape mount.

    The idea is: When using a specific format in a deviceclass, the tapedrives selection alogorithm should not discriminate tapedrives with higher capabilities In an environment with different tapedrive models (for example TS1155 and TS1160) but all d...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Openshift ODF compatibility with Thin Provisioned disks

    Thin Provisioned disks which are quick formatted using the dasdfmt utility with ODF / Ceph are currently not supported or recommended by IBM. TP disks have been supported since RHEL 8 on s390x / System z so why not with ODF / Ceph ?
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Restore more than 1 VM at the time with the tdpve web gui

    Restore Multiple VMS at ones from the web Gui from the same job ibm spectrum protect virtual environments
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Protocols - SMB Multichannel

    SMB Multichannel enables file servers to use multiple network connections simultaneously. It facilitates aggregation of network bandwidth and network fault tolerance when multiple paths (f.ex. multiple network adapters configured for LACP on clien...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Add (Tape) Media livecycle

    Add the ability to define a livecycle of a media. This lifecycle should contain a frequency data needs to be moved to a other media and a time a media needs do be disposed. By example, we need to define all tapes of a device class have to be copie...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Daily System Check using Ansible

    In an effort to automate our DS8k-environment with Ansible we are looking into automating our daily system check where we see if there is any physical drives in a failed status. The current process is done via DSCLI and generates a report manually...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Use larger containers for NonDedup data

    We have about 100k of small 64M containers that stores Non Dedup data(one SP instance). Other types of data gets stored in containers up to 10G in size. NonDedup data should be stored in larger files of 1G or maybe even 10G. This would reduce file...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Reports need to include graphs

    We simply need the ability to include the displayed graph that is visible on dashboards or performance reports when we choose the "Create Report" option. All of the reporting options are currently text based and can include an over time reports bu...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Scale / ESS soft lockup issue

    I need help on this requirements for the system using Power9 AC922 servers and ESS 3000 storages. The customer has faced soft lockup issues with their applications running on AC922 which Spectrum Scale client runs on as well. They are definitely t...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

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