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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    SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

    If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Add Service-Now integration to Storage Insights

    For certain alerts, I don't want it to sent an email. I want it to open a ticket. I want to be able to configure various Service Now fields to allow the severity and group to be assign, along with other fields An example: caller: Storage Insights ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

    Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

    Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Proactive/Predictive Alerting or Analysis Before a Port goes Bad

    Wondering if there could be some proactive alerting or analysis in storage insights based on different metrics that are collected for all the ports(FICON, FCP, ZHL) to predict a port going bad before it actually does go bad on DS8K. Currently, the...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Ability to upgrade CSM via the DS8000 GUI or embedded CLI

    Having CSM integrated onto the DS8000 HMCs has been very helpful for a number of clients. Currently, however, it is only possible for a client to upgrade CSM to a desired level via the external DSCLI. For most clients that use CSM on the HMC, this...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Chargeback reporting in SPP (Pre/Post Dedup/Compression)

    There is a similar RFE from a US customer but their requirements seem to differ slightly: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=119247 Request from customer on chargeback reporting in SPP. This is a requirement f...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Protocols SMB online update support

    With Spectrum Scale Protocols 5.0, SMB Update node by node should be possible online without downtime/business impact.Actually this is not possible.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 8 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Virtualize/SVC support for Dell EMC VPLEX backend

    Customer plans to use IBM SVC as a hub for storages, provided by other vendors, including competitors. Quite a few of the storages are hidden behind VPLEX virtualization and thus can not be virtualized by SVC/Storwize family. It limits the mobilit...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Need support of Power 8/9 Compression HW chip on AIX Client for TSM Client

    Hellowe have implemented a new Backup LAN with CISCO ACI Network 40 GBit and made backup over this seperate lan to tsm serverWe need to do a compression on the TSM Client side because the TSM Servers has currently not the capabilities to store unc...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Configurable block size for tape

    We have a tape library about 50km away from the managing SP server; connected over fibre. Due to the nature of the FC protocol for tape drives (strictly serial acknowledgement) and the latency, a single data stream gets limited to around 120MBps, ...
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

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