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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    AFM immutable file support

    Need to be able to make files immutable in a home fileset for AFM in order to protect data from ransomware, data will be created at the cache site (single-writer) and transferred to the home site using AFM, data are to be retained at the home site...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

    More email options from Operations Center such as To, CC and BCC

    Currently Operations Center is sending emails thru the BCC option and no way to make it send using the To or CC email options. It is very helpful in a colaborative environment to know where these emails go and who should be contacted so BCC will s...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Add more options for scheduling performance monitoring

    We collect more detailed performance reports on a daily basis using local scripts. When these are running, storage insights performance collection will fail. This is specific to collecting performance data on Hitachi Vantara storage arrays.
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    Implement server certificate information in OC

    Implement server certificate information in operations centre to prevent from the need to connect to system and using difficult gsk commands.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

    Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

    Simplify Ubuntu/Debian install instructions by using apt instead of dpkg

    Since apt/apt-get nowadays (well, since apt 1.1 released in 2015) support installing from local file, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.11/client/t_inst_ubuntu_x86_64client.html should probably be changed from multiple dpkg -i...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Provide batch management of TS7700 controls

    We are a large shop with a large number of VTS clusters to manage (72 currently). Having this many clusters means a lot of additional work when logging on to that many GUI's to manage the various statuses and configuration settings. In order to mo...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Multisession replication of a big file

    At the moment the limitation of replication over the WAN with latency and package lost is the fact, that one file can only be replicated in one session. Starting with TSM 7.1 big files are represented by segments within TSM, but still only one ses...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

    Enable an Audit trail for VM and applications

    Auditing – Enable a Audit trail for VM and applications. Audit trail is for jobs currently and doesn't provide info on object i.e. it says restore job started and completed but doesnt show the VMs recovered. From an auditing point of view customer...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect: Task Time Preview and Progress Indicators

    There are currently no preview or progress indicators for server and client related tasks. It would be good to get an indication of how long a task will take before kicking it off as well as an indication of how much time is still remaining for th...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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