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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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SNMP Query support for Storwise V3700

The V3700 SNMP Implementation only pushes management/monitoring information. We have a large OEM Opportunity that requires the ability to pull SNMP data for automated management purposes. SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on th...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

De-couple CES NFS and SMB services

From support: You can stop NFS service without stop SMB. But if you want stop SMB service, you need stop NFS first. We need to stop all access to AFM collections but still need to serve non-AFM NFS to our cluster. Easiest would be to only shutdown...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Client Encryption with IBM Spectrum Scale

Spectrum Protect backup encryption using include.Encrypt for Spectrum Scale client is not working due to unrecognized format "Include Encrypt". Error:mmbackup does not recognize this include rule format: Include Encrypt. The tsbackup33 perl script...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Security non compliance with Windows VM self-service file-level restore requiring a Domain administrator account

Spectrum Protect for VE Self-Service file-level restore uses the domain administrator credentials to access network shares on the remote virtual machine.This is seen in many cases as a gab in the security and a risk of security non compliance for ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale DMAPI Locking issues

mmap calls are allowed against files where we have acquired DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE, as long as the handle used for mmap was opened before the exclusive right was acquired. Acquiring DM_RIGHT_EXCLUSIVE access on a file with current active mmaps succeed...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

StorM performance evalution problem

StorM evaluates performance better than the actual machine.StorM evaluates at 300,000 IOPS or more/1 msec or less under the following conditions. The bottleneck is CPU Utilization.FS7200, 4.8TB FCM x 13, DRAID6, Read:Write=99%:1%, Block size=6KiB,...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Better vendor-independent monitoring

Currently SMI-S is the only supported vendor-neutral API. We have 5 vendors in our storage environment. The SNIA Swordfish API is not currently implemented by either vendor, with only timid hints at future implementations. We need to have professi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

CLI command to show email notification status (Started or Stopped)

On occasion we have disabled notifications to suppress alerting during changes but have forgotten to turn it back on again. we know in the CLI we can "startemail" and "stopemail" to control the notifications but we cannot find a way to show whethe...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Central Storage Managment console for SVC / Vxxxx Storage

Provide a Central Management Console, like XIV GUI, for SVC and Vxxxx Storage
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Working OOtB Spectrum Protect Client for Ubuntu

System: SpectrumProtect Client for Ubuntu Linux.Actor: System administrator requesting to share some improvements with the world. Solution:-----------If IBM's .deb packages would1. use more features that the .deb format offers,2. be downloadable f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration