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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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Storage Insights Pro Support for HDS Ops Center

Hitachi is advising customers to switch to Ops Center. SI Pro does not support Ops Center, only Command Suite. SI Pro must incorporate Ops Center in order to be compatible with Hitachi devices.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enhance Monitoring Capabilities by adding new Performance-Metric

Our Load on Ganesha NFS drives the Services into stale conditions where manual interventions are required and possibly tuning measures needed. Currently there is no way to figure what Limits are hit within Ganesha and logging seems not to help a l...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add compressed/ill-compressed options to mmfind

For a while we have maintained our own modified versions of mmfind and tr_findToPol.pl in /usr/lpp/mmfs/samples/ilm so we can identify the compressed and illcompressed files. It would be nice if this feature could be considered for inclusion in fu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for VE backup report

We need IBM Spectrum Protect Operation Center to be able to generate a SP (TSM) for VE backup report on daily bases. We need this report to cover successful and failed SP (TSM) for VE backup jobs and to be able to automatically e-mail to our manag...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Test Restore Periodically

Restore customer data Periodically without needing of system outage or stand by system.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Single VM Backup History

A common question is ‘why is my VM taking ages to backup'. A Gannt chart view is a really powerful tool for answering these questions. In the example below the VM backed up mostly between 19:00 and 23:00, except on Mondays when there was extra chu...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Select which management class for offload backup is used.

When making backup jobs we want to select which management class the spectrum protect for VE datamover must use for offload backups. We need the option to have different retentions requirements for long term storage on the spectrum protect server....
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Support end user activation for HyperSwap relationship suspension and activation to allow batch workload best performance

Spectrum Virtualize HyperSwap current implementation does not allow selectively pausing/activating active-active replication for a volume or a consistency group protected by the HyperSwap mechanism. This forbids clients to host latency sensitive w...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

enhance for multi-session retrieve functionality

Multi-sessions is not enchanced in retrieve operations while it is for restore operations
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Parallelization/enhancement of pool migrations of individual large files

When running migrations between different pools often it appears the tail latency of the ILM run is dictated by a small number of large files This seems to be due to the pool migration of any individual file being a single threaded activity that i...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration