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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    Keep supporting directly attached FlashSystem storage on IBM i

    Reading this page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7032023 it states: -- quote -- IBM i connected using directly attached Fibre Channel IBM i is not supported as a host operating system when connected using directly attached Fibre Channel t...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    Add option to restrict email alerts to specific sessions

    Please make it so that when configuring "Session State Change" alerts one can select specific sessions. In our shared environment, customers(or teams or applications) have emails configured to receive "Session state change". Currently though, all ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

    Change to CIM support

    On version 8.6.1 and newer, support for the CIM protocol is removed. Some third party applications that connect using the CIM protocol will need to be updated.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 13 Delivered

    Provide SMTP Authentication capability to CSM (Copy Services Manager)

    I work at a financial institution and our Security Department has recently implemented a policy to block all unauthenticated SMTP which, of course, is affecting alerts via email from CSM. This forced us to utilized SNMP for alerting...which isn’t ...
    10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

    SpVirt encrypted syslog

    send encrypted syslog files to a syslog central; our syslog feature currently doesn't include TLS encryption
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    HyperSwap and enhanced stretch cluster support with SGC in SCDM

    To get application consistent (!) SGC in a high-available setup (FS or SVC), we need CDM to support such. Right now, CDM support HA without SGC!
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

    The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

    Need ability to rebalance volume extents when adding more MDisks to an existing storage pool

    When adding MDisks to an existing storage pool for SWV7K or SVC we do not automatically rebalance the extents volumes' are using from the pool thus we get hotspots and imbalance in utilization. We have had request to add this to SVC since 2003 and...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 15 Delivered

    Automatically use the same preferred node of source volumes for snapshot target volumes.

    Automatically use the same preferred node for target snapshot volumes of source snapshot volumes.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Implement full LDAPS

    We have a requirement from a client to implement all IBM tooling along with Spectrum Protect (8.1.2) via LDAPS. We have successfully proved the current form of integration with StartTLS but the client in question is a bank and has concerns around ...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

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