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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    Create, modify and remove TSM scripts

    We want the functionality to create, modify and remove TSM/SP scripts from the Operation Center. This was a standard functionality in Tivoli Intergrated Portal but is not availible in the OC
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Allow the CSM DSCLI for Z logs directory to point to a user-specified location.

    Modify the CSM DSCLI for Z product such that the logs directory, and any other directory the product writes to, can be directed to another location than the product's install location, currently CSM_ProductionRoot/logs. This would be an environmen...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Enable storage firmware or patches upgrade via Storage Insights

    Storage Insights gives recommendations for firmware upgrades and security patch installs. For a huge storage customer base, the upgrading/installing would be time taking and error prone. Amadeus is one such customer who is looking for storage firm...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

    dsmc should be able to backup all files when using mmbackup

    TSM when used to backup Spectrum Scale file-systems with mmbackup is unable to backup files with certain characters in filenames (e.g. new line). Given files with new lines can be created using Spectrum Scale with CES from Windows and Mac clients,...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    NTP updates needed

    Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
    10 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus support for Db2 Purescale

    Customer who has majority of database residing on Db2 of which 90%+ of those databases are Db2 Purescale requires support for this platform in Spectrum Protect Plus.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    PPRC with LUN's greater than 4TB

    The customer in CMVC 372631 (BANK_OF_PIRAEUS) wants to migrate data from DS8900 (75KND00) to DS8A00 (78NWC50); involving volumes with a size of more than 4 TB. Current code has a boundary to allow for replication of a volume above a size of 4TB.
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Defender Data Protect Agent needs to support customer-issued CA certificates

    Especially for big customers with their own customer CA, we NEED to support their own certificates with Defender Data Protect agents to comply with their strict security requirements.
    10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0

    Storage Insight Reports over all disks on all storage systems

    Problem to solve the question: Do I have a storage system with a disk affected by a certain (faulty) firmware? SI is a central inventory system, which already collects the data of all storage systems and has this information already. It's a common...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    Add zstd as a compression option

    Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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