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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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Adding Support for Multi Target PPRC in CSM for Hitachi VSP5000 Systems

We use in our Datacenter for migration last year multi target concept to migrate our old vsp to new one and use Hittachi TrueCopy and CSM to do that. We see that also Multitarget PPRC are working as expectetd but we missed the complete support of ...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future 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...
about 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

Openshift-image-registry to be Included in Backup

Fusion UI does not display the namespace openshift-image-registry which is required during Recovery of Full Cluster.
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Storage Scale System BXi support in version 4 latest mid 2026

Customer invested heavily in BXi Network technology. Customer needs support and performance measurements with BXi to include further Storage Scale Systems in large HPC Deals
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under 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

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

Provide a "number of days" parameter so the "SUR Occupancy data" can be collected less than the set value of once a week.

THis is very valuable for BackEnd Licensing purposes. As example, we show to be 6 TB out of compliance, but in the last 5 days we have deleted 11 TB. Yet we still show as being out of compliance because the "SUR Occupancy data" is so far out of da...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration