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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    Upgrade Storage Archive EE cluster(10 nodes+2 libraries) node by node without stopping migrate and recall service

    Baidu Netdisk had bought lots of tape libraries to store their cool data. Their solution is Storage Scale + Storage Archive EE+ TS4500. Recently they met an Archive bug, and IBM EE team had found the root cause and provided a fix, Baidu Netdisk ha...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

    The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Reports need to include graphs

    We simply need the ability to include the displayed graph that is visible on dashboards or performance reports when we choose the "Create Report" option. All of the reporting options are currently text based and can include an over time reports bu...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

    Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

    Increase number of SVC Partnerships

    Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    I would like VGS to be added to SPS

    Goodday As part of our Oracle in a SAP environment landscape we do bi-weekly refreshes of PROD onto a QA system. We also get ad-hoc requests for other clones as well as clones for Projects that means we need to keep a snapshot around for 6-12 mont...
    over 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    SOBAR like recovery for Spectrum Archive

    Large Spectrum Archive installation cannot afford backing up files twice so file replication on different tapes is being used.Spectrum Scale Metadata becomes critical as any corruption due to software or harware error may produce a long outage to ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

    ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

    The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Staged severity level for software code level warnings

    In the Advisor section you get hints when your code is below minimum level. It's even called a software warning. We propose to raise it as alert, when on an EOS code version, as wraning when you are below minimum level and as informational when yo...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add aborted command/transfer metrics to SI

    Spec V systems don't incorporate response time metrics into the performance stats for IOs that were aborted. The hosts would have actually been impacted by these IOs because IOs are typically aborted once they have hit some kind of timeout value. ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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