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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    Historical data on vSnap utilization

    Customer requests the ability to have historical report of vSnap storage utilization over time (i.e. past 90, 365 days or greater). The report should show changing vSnap utilization and compression / deduplication ratios broken down into a chart o...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Distribution via Package Repository

    Today Spectrum Scale ships self extracting images. These are large, usually only 25% of the image content is used, and a special install procedure is needed.These images are quickly superseded by new ptf versions, sometimes certain versions are wi...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Support for non paged mechanism in IBM CSM Flash Copy Manager for z/OS (CSMFCM)

    The CSMFCM does not have a non paged mechanism that can survive a freeze. If the page disks are in the configuration the CSMFCM itself get frozen and therefore could not issue the thaw. Therefore it falls on the hardware ELB for the thaw to occur.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    add ability to create certificate signing request to SP+ interface

    The SP+ admin UI allows us to provide a real (non self signed ) certificate but does not provide a way to create a certificate signing request which is necessary to obtain a real certificate. We need a supported way to create CSRs
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    API enhancement for File System Size and Utilization

    In the current version (5.1.8) the api does not have a usable endpoint for the filesystem to show Current File System Size (Data/System) File system utilisation (size / %used)
    over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Report visualizer inside Operations Center

    The only way to visualize a report output is to send the report by email using the "Send" option. This is not practical when creating/modifying a report and you need to see the result quickly in order to make changes/corrections to the SQL. It wou...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Backup vCLS VMs

    Exclude vCLS VMs from VM backups using TDP for VMware. Is not possible exclude VMs from backup using TAG, when VM is backed up using Schedule-Tag option.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus Lucene DB maintenance option

    I require an option within Spectrum Protect Plus that that will given me the ability to either reset the Lucene db (like drop the entire DB) or remove file indexing entries older than x days) This would give me the flexibilty to better control wha...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Retention rule Media be part of DRM

    If you are using Container Pool and want to create a air-gap copy of your data, either you do a protect storage pool to protect everything to your tape device or if you want to keep a offline copy for a longer period then the normal policy domain ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Enforce HSTS in TS7700

    TS7700 Web GUI is not enforcing HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), which allows downgrade attacks, SSL-stripping man-in-the-middle attacks and weakens cookie-hijacking protections. It should be either enforced by default or it should be possib...
    8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Needs more information

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