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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    Remote Pair Flashcopy for GM (Global Mirror)

    This functionality is currently our highest priority for upcoming microcode enhancements. We are awaiting this capability to enable DB2 image copies—and more broadly, any FlashCopy operations—without negatively impacting our Global Mirror (GM) Rec...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    ESS call home for disk failures should include the RG\disk name in the IBM case title

    In ESS call home for disk failures, when a case is created the case title is very generic and reports an error number 'Error Code: DSK00001'. Problem The challenge is that when disks fail, it is difficult to relate a specific disk failure to an IB...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 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...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    More granulary distribution and documentation of roles

    We need a more detailled way to manage the rights and roles in our DS8k environment, as we have received the requirement from our Security department to monitor and restrict roles based on Users etc. Expected GUI enhancements and display of which ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    SI Data Collector in Windows should not relay on WMIC due to deprecation

    The Windows data collector service relies on the WMIC command which has been deprecated since 2016 and it is recommended to replace its use with powershell functions. On newer Windows versions (eg 11 and 2025), WMIC is not installed by default, an...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    GPFS instead of ZFS

    Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    List Fileset Capacity of Data in Different Pools

    Using the mmlsfileset command, GUI, or both - add ability to see what is the capacity of the fileset on differnet pools. If a filesystem has different pools ie. system, tier1, tier2, etc... using the mmlsfileset command get the percentage of the f...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

    We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
    over 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    The ability to see snapshot size in WebUI

    To give a quick overview of the change rate in a file set and of course see the size of the snapshot
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    CAS GPU Server to support H200 GPU card

    Allow customer to customize the GPU card with H200 in addition to RTX Pro 6000. Allow customer to use the GPU server to build custom AI Data Platform such as generic K8s platform with GPU card for generic AI training and inferencing workload.
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

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