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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    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Add an option to quorum groups

    We need to add the ability to select specific users for each rule to the quorum, not just the entire cluster. For example, we want to add a rule to restore VMs and Virtual Disks to a specific user group, not the entire cluster.
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add parallelism when replicating data stored on tape

    When using node replication with data stored on tape, the SP replication process is single threaded. This means that only a single tape drive will be used when replicating a node even if there are many free/available tape drives in the tape librar...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Enable inline compression of files at ingestion for IBM Storage Scale

    Our client needs to have the option to compress some well-known files inline, at ingestion -first write- time. Their goal is to enable this compression on the gpfs clients. They use remote-mounts to connect to their gpfs filesystems (having ESS as...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Query for bitmap increment status

    During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Submitted

    Catalog backup stops DCDM server

    When the SCDM Catalog backup is initiated from the Admin Console,it stops the CDM server. This behavior is unusual and problematic. The SCDM Catalog backup should operate online, without interruptingor stopping the CDM server. Stopping the CDM ser...
    3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

    We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
    20 days ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted

    Options for SPS Offload

    The tape_backup function creates a "db2 backup database" command for the offload of a FlashCopy image to TSM. This works fine but I am not able to add any backup options to this command. It is assembled by SPS. But it would be very useful to add o...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Submitted

    Support for VMware v9.0

    Support for VMware Cloud foundation v9.0
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Submitted

    Request to add a feature that allows administrators to check the amount of data stored in each bucket or user/user group.

    When providing Deep Archive like a cloud service, it is necessary to check the usage amount for each user with administrator commands and charge according to capacity, as well as issue warnings for “excessive use.”
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

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