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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

SCDM: Import existing GMCV relationships into CDM - take ownership back after change

SCDM only lets you create brand new relationships when managing a GMCV configuration. If existing relationships are present on the volumes (even if they were created by SCDM) you have to destroy them and then recreate - full initial re-sync necess...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Add more options for scheduling performance monitoring

We collect more detailed performance reports on a daily basis using local scripts. When these are running, storage insights performance collection will fail. This is specific to collecting performance data on Hitachi Vantara storage arrays.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under 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
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Allow more authentication services for multitenancy

Currently only one authentication services can be defined in Spectrum Virtualize systems. Although the storage allowes more authentication servers to be registered, but that for reliability (availability) reasons. (same domain) The goal is to achi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Create backupset from directory container stgpool

Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Push Update for TDP clients

Large SP customer has 10.000 + SP clients. Because of security requirements ( CVE etc.) he has to update its SP clients very often. For BA clients the update process can already be done from the server, but currently this can not be done for TDP c...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Client Support for SnapDiff API v2

The possibility of using of FlexGroup volume is very necessary for us as supercomputing centre. First by using of FlexGroup volume is possible excite the 100TB boundary of other kinds of NetApp volumes.Working backup with SP Client of such volumes...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Display more detailed information in the Storage Insights Ticket dashboard

SI is a great pan of glass to Monitor, Manage and track issue on storage environment.When using the Device Ticket Dashboard, user see only the ticket number ( RCMS, RETAIN , Salesforce) but detailed information are missing.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Need a support for data migration using AFM between two Spectrum Scale clusters with migrated data to tape by ISP HSM.

Currently data on a source Spectrum Scale clucster(or ESS) can be migrated to a target cluster using AFM prefetch function.In case that a cluster uses HSM function which migrates data on GPFS to tape storage using ISP for Space Management, AFM pro...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration