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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backup stgpool parallelization

I would request to have backup stgpool of a source pool of type=disk parallelized either on a per volume base (as backup stgpool acts if the source pool is of type=file) or on the amount of data to process. When running backup stgpool with a sourc...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

DEACTIVATE FILESPACE

Based on the principle of new commands, DEACTIVATE and DECOMMISSION, which act on the nodes,we should be able to go down to the file system level.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

node canister replacement fix procedure

The Run fix to replace the canister is missing a step.It doesn't run the "satask chbootdrive -replacecanister" under the covers or mention that the command needs to be run on the replacement node. The instructions are in the Knowledge Center but w...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Native LDAP for DS Storage

Description - Include native LDAP feature for DS8K frames, currently only DS888x frames have it built in w/ CSM Current Workaround - no workaround
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

IBM SPP vSnap Seeding from a Remote Site

Customer with Remote Offices need a way to seed initial backups in the local vSNAP server with the centralised HQ rather than waiting for data to transfer over the WAN links.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for TLS on SMTP servers (Office 365)

If a customer using office365, mails from SPP using office 365 can't be sent, because TLS SMTP is not supported.Support for TSL SMTP is needed.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SP OC UI

Have a link from SP OC to the RFE community
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Support more than 32 active GM Sessions

Increase the maximum supported active GM sessions in DS8880 from current hardware limitation of 32 active sessions to at least 64 active sessions . For example the IBM SVC support up to 256 - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S101...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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