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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    No comma's in session and process numbers

    For almost 20 years I work with ADSM/TSM/ISP I'm super annoyed that you can't do an easy copy/paste of the session or process number to the cancel command if the number is higher then 999 Please remove the comma when you do a query session or quer...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Applications with VMs instead of hosts.

    Most customers use same VMware ESX hosts for multiple VM's and grouping by host (applications) doesn't help to analyze/monitor specific VM's.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Functionality already exists

    CES IP - group failover, within the locality, when using a stretched cluster

    Client in a active-active Spectrum Scale stretched cluster using protocol nodes. They have 6 protocol nodes in total. Nowadays, in case of 1 node failure, the CES IP can be failover to any nodes, either in the same site or to the remote site. This...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Improvement to Distributed Lock Manager (DLM) for shared files.

    Request for an improved DLM mechanism when leveraging a scale out protocole node approach to better handle Locking broadcasting overhead for "shared to all" files and folder.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Support for VMware vCloud Director

    When does IBM expect that Spectrum Protect Plus have support for VMware vCloud Director.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Efficient Deletion of Fileset backup data based on mmBackup per Fileset

    We are running multi-petabyte Scale file systems in our HPC environment. User data is organized per project using independent filesets. The backup of user data is performed using mmBackup per fileset. For new projects, a new fileset is created. Wh...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    FlashSystem Freeze time delay metric

    When I do my nightly data refresh from my Corporate FlashSystem to my remote Disaster Recovery FlashSystem, the 'Freeze time' in the "Copy Services" - "Remote Copy" - "Consistency Group" - 'Freeze time' falls behind from being current. I would lik...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Not under consideration

    Expand the number of supported Protocol Clusters that can be configured on a IBM Spectrum Scale Storage Cluster

    Expand support for the current limitation of one storage cluster and up to five protocol clusters to one storage cluster and up to ten protocol clusters.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Add TS1160 support to V7 Storage Agent

    Platin/PlatiniumCustomer VW has more than 200 physical HP/UX and SUN Solaris server, running several applications, including Oracle, some of them larger than 100 TB. All these server are using TSM TDP with LAN free backup. VW purchased the TS4500 ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Not under consideration

    Provide an IBM TS7700 interal fucntion to allow removing the secondary copies from old/inactive Copy Export Pool via internal DB2 cleanup.

    Our production TS7770 cluster was performing the daily copy export process prior the new TS7780 copy export cluster was installed. Now the production TS7770 needs to get rid of the copy export pool with 200 pvols in order to be able to re-use thos...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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