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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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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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storwize remote mirror bitmap space in hyperswap

in a hyperswap environment with heavy overprovisioning there is a lack of bitmap space for remote copy operations inside the hyperswap. we can extent flashcopy bitmap space to 2GB, but remotecopy is shared with other features an limited to 552 MB ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SVC ALUA support for VMware

SVC does support the SCSI ALUA standard as well as VMware. VMware has a dedicated Storage Array Type Plug-in (SATP) for using ALUA called VMW_SATP_ALUA SATP. This SATP needs to support SVC just like it supports other IBM storage (e.g. DS3000, DS40...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Enhance mmkeyserv to make configs possible with CA signed Rest-API Certs.

Currently to define the mmkeyserv rkm Config in an CA-Trusted GKLM Environment where the https/Rest-API Certs are CA signed the configuration are not possibly. This is a security flow and can not accepted in the area of cybercrime. The current pos...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Backup of NSX-T network interfaces in SP for VE

Spectrum Protect for VE needs to include VMware NSX virtual networking devices in the backups of the VMs. NSX is becoming a widely used virtual network infrastructure for VMware, which is configured via tagging of virtual NIC devices to a VM.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job

Schedule Hypervisor Inventory Job
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add more characters in MetroMirror name

Name of Mirror Relationship and Consistencygroup allows only 15 digits
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add DST flag to timestamp in Perfstat files

A small but helpful cleanup change: Could you please add the Daylight Savings Time (DST) Flag to the Timestamp in all 4 performance statistics filetypes (Nv, Nm, Nd, Nn)? End of October countries like Germany (TimeZone 360) have a negative clock c...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

CSM Improve DS8000 Paths Interface

I would like to propose several enhancements to how the CSM DS8000 Paths screen is displayed and managed. 1) The DS8000 Paths screen has a lot of unused space when drilled down into a storage device list of paths, on my monitors at least half of t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Volume unmapping with independency

This event occur on VMWARE environment and not on z/OS! On microcode Release 87.51.103.0 when a set of volumes has more than one host and an unmap process is done via GUI all volumes are unmapped as well for others different hosts. This process is...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered