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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    CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI.

    1. CSM estimated completion time via CSMCLI Of Flash Copy Command Hi, We would like to have a report generated with CSMCLI Command who will give the completion of the FlashCopy Ce can see dynamically the completion with GUI.But if we want to follo...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Protecting Cluster-wide resources using Fusion UI

    If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    TPC-R integration with VMware SRA for SRM

    I'm submitting on behalf of a customer who's using TPC-R to manage replication between multiple Storwize/SVC systems and supporting IBM i, AIX, Windows and VMware hosts. For VMware, they're using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to automate failover. W...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

    System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    IBM SP Client/API encryption

    Allow the client and api to use external source for encryption keys storage, like SKLM.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect client using port 9081, same as BigFix

    The new tsm client 8.1.7+ is using default port 9081 for file level restore operations via web.The problem is that is the same port as tsm4ve and the same port as bigfix. IBM should not release different products using the same default port. One o...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    SCDM notify on failure only

    SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SCDM should support daylight savings time

    SCDM should support daylight savings time
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow globally to exclude 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.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support openSUSE as a GPFS client

    SLES is an officially supported Linux distribution for installing GPFS/Scale (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/5.1.9?topic=gpfs-software-requirements). openSUSE is binary compatible with SLES as of version 15.3 (see https://www.suse.com/c...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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