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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Detecting bad network connection and perform preventive Action.

When there is a Bad Network connection there is a possibility of receiving malformed or out of sequence Commands. The Spectrum Virtualize products are reacting to this anomaly by rebooting themselves, sometimes both nodes rebooting simultaneously....
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

SpecV queue full condition not being properly retried/recovered by MSDSM

Ian Mac Quarrie and Bill Passingham are aware of this issue at GEICO. Spectrum Virtualize in combination with Windows MSDSM is currently experiencing issues when Spectrum Virtualize hits a queue full condition. This condition needs to be fixed.Bil...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

V7000 Gen1 PCIe bus issue causing Node aserts

When the node asserts due to a PCIe issue the node is taken offline. This impacts performance and redundancy. An IBM CE is required to reseat the node to bring it back online.
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

V7K disk upgrade fails when package missining

DRIVE ERROR WHILE UPDATING FIRMWARE DRIVE. AND APPLYDRIVESOFTWARE -ALL F AILS DUE TO MISSING FIRMWARE IN PACKAGE 20150619
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect