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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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Support Red Hat IPA for mmuserauth

Red Hat IPA / FreeIPA is an identity and authentication source similar to Active Directory. It has LDAP for user information, and kerberos for authentication. It can integrate with Active Directory through trust and replication, and will then cont...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Allow user to adjust the number of "keep alive" requests that can be missed before a storage device sends 2020 error event

IBM needs to add a feature that would allow people who manage IBM storage devices to adjust the number of "keep alive" requests that can be missed before a storage device sends 2020 error event emails about Remote Copy links being down --- 99% of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Shorten CES failover/failback timeout

The io pending time in the failure of CES interface failure/CES node failure is 10s. Customer‘s expectation is 4-5s so that can improve usage experience.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Hard to find target host/cluster for VM restore when many hosts/clusters available

The restore of a VM to an alternate host becomes very problematic when many hosts are available. The customer I am working with has an environment that creates a list page count of over 800 in the restore UI of SPP. It won't be possible to find th...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Allow a global exclude for a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job

Allow globally to exclude a specific hard disk from an SLA backup job, like the function to exclude complete VMs via the Policy Options or by using a specific VM tag.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

No comma's in session and process numbers

For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

FlashCopy Manager - enable higher values for SVC_COPY_RATE

Please increase possible values for parameter SVC_COPY_RATE to numbers higher than 100.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

RFE 51: Automated vdisk mirroring functionality

One of the big advantages SVC offers is the ability to non-disruptively move vdisksbetween backend storage arrays - SVC pools. However this is currently a manually intensive process and requires the administrator to start and stop vdiskmirrors. Th...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration