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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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fine-grained performance monitoring for protocol

The customer raised this requirement in their workshop in 2018:1. for protocol/NFS, PingAn could monitor the throughput of each exported points. PingAn raised the request to monitor the throughput from each clients to see which client is taking mo...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Add log collection as a one time action for custom alerts

There are many problems the support teams work on that require detail log collection at a time very close to an given performance event. It is difficult for customer operations teams to be able to accomplish this. Support currently supplies script...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Private AWS DirectConnect domain support in SP

Our customer need to have support in Spectrum Protect for using private AWS DirectConect domain for VPCE in URL Cloud Connection for S3. SP currently support only public domain in URL like "s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" This Spectrum Protect limitat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance Backup

Customers are migrating SQL databases to Azure, running them either as Azure SQL Databases or Azure SQL Managed Instances. There is no IBM documentation which acknowledges whether any of the Spectrum Protect products support backup of SQL PaaS in ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Automatically clear errors, and send alarm clear trap, for self healing errors

The svc code sends snmp traps when an event or an error occurs. To make error handling easier, it would be nice to get the svc to clear selffixed issues. A trap that states that the error has been automatically resolved should be sendt to the trap...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Admin User Creation Segregation of Duty

Due to enhanced security requirements the customer would like to have a segregation of duty for the creation of admin users. The possibility of creating new admin users and granting them system authority should be removed from the admin/system aut...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Report and Update Quota's better

Spectrum Scale has commands of mmlsquota, mmedquota, mmrepquota and mmsetquota to update and control quotas. It would be helpful to be able to copy quotas between users, filesets and groups in a flexable fasion, both within the same filesystem (wh...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Administracion DS8K interactividad entre GUI y CLI

El cliente tiene la necesidad de interactuar entre comando de linea CLI y interfaz grafica GUI, tanto via software de la cambia como via CSM. Se solicita que la cabina autorefresque cada cierto tiempo para que los cambios realizados via CLI se vea...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add "real" system serial to pull down menu so it can be displayed along with the Node ID.

Please add the "real" system serial (78-XXXXX) as an option in the pull down menu of the Resource Tab listing all of the installed system.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Active Directory integration with TSM

Full Active Directory integration required as a single sign on solution
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration