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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    SI/SC don't show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices

    Today, neither SI nor SC show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices, only the physical WWPN. Since the direction is to use NPIV only for host attachment, this prevents important information related to host connectivity being visible.
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    The object storage of DS8000 TCT output can be used for FlashCopy target

    In Japan z/OS market, DFSMShsm gets only 10% shares, so DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering will not be considered. My customer hopes to utilize DS8k TCT function just like as FlashCopy or Concurrent Copy via DFSMSdss Copy command . Restoring from ob...
    about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Add sender email address to Alert Notifications screen

    Currently the CSM GUI configuration for Alert Notifications asks for the "Reply-to-address". This is not the same as the sender address but this subtle difference is easily missed (and if noticed there is no obvious way to specify the sender addre...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    Openshift-image-registry to be Included in Backup

    Fusion UI does not display the namespace openshift-image-registry which is required during Recovery of Full Cluster.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Group View by Location

    Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    mmdf needs an option to not reach out to all remote clients

    On our very large environment, mmdf will take hours to run. This is apparently because the ESS cluster will reach out to our thousands of remote clients to verify accuracy of its statistics. Worse the entire system slows down while this is occurri...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Port time blocked percentage metric

    Request to get the metric "Port time blocked percentage" added into Storage Insights available metrics to monitor. This metric is a calculated value available in regular iostats and L3/dev indicate this value is calculated as :Time Blocked Percent...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Eliminate manual recompiles of gpfs.gplbin due to kernel changes

    It should not be necessary for customers to manually recompile gpfs.gplbin every time the kernel is updated. Two possible approaches seem to be: * kmod, which would remove the need to recompile the module as long as the kABI remains stable. kABI-t...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Add option Session expiration time

    In addition to this delivered option for idle session logout https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CSM-I-123 Security requirements are asking for a an absolute logout. A user is logged in, but can stay logged in indefinitely if not idle. The...
    8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Not under consideration

    Add an 'absolute' logout option for the VTS Management interface

    Due to more restrictive security requirements we're asking to have an addition logout option for the VTS Management Interface. In addition to the session timeout option add an absolute timeout option. Whether the session is idle or not have the op...
    8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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