IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Ability to send custom reports via OC as csv attachments.

    Having the ability to generate custom reports as csv attachments provide extra flexibility for post-processing.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    AFM: honor dataStructureDump for temp directory

    Currently on error conditions AFM will dump to /tmp. In the cases where prefetch fails for large files, it has the potential to overrun /tmp and hang the system.
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Support for Immutable Flag for ext4/xfs file systems

    Please introduce support to use immutable flags in container and file storage pools for linux file systems like ext4 and xfs
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    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

    Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

    A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    DS8A hardware support for a Copy target to be the source for multi target copy relation

    Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    The restriction of maximum VMDK size for data protection for VMWARE should be increased

    While current maximum VMDK size defined by VMware vSphere on VMFS is up to 62TB, the ISP for VE will allow backup only disks up to 8 TB - larger disks will fail. It should be increased to keep up with the product features.
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

    Add Transparent Cloud Tiering configuration and testing into the GUI or WUI

    Adding a TCT screen to the GUI could include features such as: Provide customer visible indicator of which TCT port is currently active. Add TCT port throughput to DS8K performance dashboard. View/Change TCT port configurations without using DSCLI...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

    Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

    Make VTS performance numbers easily available

    VEC VTS performed automatic reboot due to lack of memory. System started to page, and there is no easy way to monitor paging or any other critical VTS performance numbers. To monitor paging (and other critical resources) those numbers need to easi...
    over 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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