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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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Improve how to change volume population rate

If the rate for a volume population should get changed (default 2 MB/s) it is required at first to display the "populating_mapping_id" using "lsvolumepopulation -showhidden". Then this "populating_mapping_id" must be used with the command "chfcmap...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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1 day ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Expand Safeguarded Virtual Capacity must be processed immediately

When you experience high increased (unexpected) changed tracks on devices, you can get into the situation having SGC CAPTURES FLAGGED AS PARTIAL.To recover from/resolve the situation, you need to Expand Safeguarded Virtual Capacity for the device(...
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Support for Ontap 9.17.1 /9.18.1

The support for Ontap 9.16.1 runs out in 31. Januar 2028. The support for Ontap 9.15.1 on 31. Juli 2027. So only 1,5 or 2 years left. Please support more current releases
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

IBM Storage Scale Container Native Support for migration between host network and CNI

In the original versions of IBM Storage Scale Container Native there was only host-network support, which was not ideal from the security/performance point of view. New versions of GPFS have added support CNI support. Currently there is no documen...
2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Increase REST API max requests per second limit

The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.

More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
10 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted