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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    VM recommission is not getting captured in actlog

    Adding VM recommission details to the IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) activity log provides significant benefits, primarily for auditing, troubleshooting, and operational visibility.
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Is a defect

    Need to improve the speed of deleting a large number of small files

    when deleting a large number of small files, most of the deleted ones are reclaimed in the background asynchronous process of fullscandeletion, but the process of space reclamation is relatively slow
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TDP for MS SQL FCM GUI Customization

    The way information is displayed in the FCM GUI interface, restore tab, is cumbersome to use, especially when dealing with multiple instances. We should be able to customize the column layout, and sort on multiple columns.
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    Pagepool enhancements

    Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

    Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

    new Spectrum Protect Client API to provide "QUERY OCCUPANCY" details + possibly "Q STGPOOL capacity details

    Hi,The SPFS solution is a virtual filesystem that makes it possible to mount Spectrum Protect server storage directly on the server, so that it is possible to protect almost anydata with Spectrum Protect using normal file operations. SPFS uses Spe...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Flashcopy Mapping - right click restore

    Problem Description I just spent 3 days with IBM support trying to figure out how to restore a flashcopy from a target volume to a source volume. Finally support found a 2013 storewize v7000 redbook that listed to 2 commands. (ie Creating a revers...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    To pull graphical representing reports from operation center

    Add a feature to pull reports in form of bar/pie, graphical representing reports from operation Centre.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    Convert a root fileset to an independent fileset

    With AFM working only with independent filesets and not with root fileset, a customer that is hosting some data that needs to be replicated on its root fileset and that needs to transition to AFM will need to migrate (copy/move) all the data on th...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus for PowerVM

    Backup Virtual Machines from IBM PowerVM virtualization
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

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