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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    add possibility to modify OpenShift PVC volumes attributes on IBM FlashSystems

    I would like to specify options like sync_rate or warning threshold in storage class when creating luns for OpenShift PVCs
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    TLS Email Support

    Today does IBM Storage Protect OC has support to email reports over email, but this hasn't been updated for a wild now and the supported protocol is a unsecure SMTP port 25 communcation and we can always create a SMTP tunnel to a Cloud SMTP Server...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    IBM CSM LDAP Configuration to Improve Handling of Recursive Search Directive

    Many companies today utilize nested LDAP groups for privileges, which configuration today is only possible to support in CSM by manually adding the "recursiveSearch=true" directive into the XML in the Advanced tab of LDAP Configuration. If any inf...
    8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Allowing multiple node to store data

    Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Backup of VMware Custom Atributes

    Backup of VMware Custom Atributes and values.Service request number: 10814,999,846
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 copy/replication time reporting in the BVIR record

    To day, it is required that the customer runs VEHAUDIT to get the copy time distribution report; the same report is attached. I have been approached by couple customers who would like to see the copy time statistics is written directly to the BVIR...
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

    V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

    Online maintenance and upgrade capabilities

    Ability to perform hardware and software maintenance activities (including firmware upgrades) without taking the entire library offline (by identifying at least a subset of operations that can be carried out while the system remains active in prod...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Reporting using VM Tagging

    Customer would like to expand the SPP reporting by using VMware Tagging.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Seamlessy convert subtree into (independent) fileset

    add a command to convert a subtree to an independent fileset seamlessly (without interrupting access for users) and - as a bonus - vice-versa
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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