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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Improve DIO on sparse files to avoid E-HOLE error

The customer is using Db2 pureScale and allocates tablespace using preallocation.But there are enormous performance issue was caused by the DIO thrashing ( frequent switching back and forth between DIO and Buffered IO ) due to E_HOLE errors.We ana...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Callhome for Node Reboot

IBM node panic Rebooted on 09/17, but no callhome generated to IBM(TS017220322) In event of Node reboots due to any bug may go unnoticed if the node comes up within 30 mins. Fidelity would like to generate a callhome to IBM and a case should open ...
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

vSnap – migrate data from one vSnap to another vSnap

vSnaps of SPP are created but in the lifecycle the amount of data will increase. When a new vSnap is needed to increase capacity at the moment only new VMs will be backed up to this vSnap. To migrate data of vSnaps you need to create a new policy:...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Network option for Ceph Ready Nodes

Our customers have asked us to upgrade their network performance and availability for Ceph Ready Nodes. Therefore, we would like you to add networking options as well as disk drives. - Number of NIC ports. Currently, with only two ports(10GbE), cu...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Support NVIDIA H100 for Fusion HCI GPU node

NVIDIA GPU L40S support for GPU nodes alone is not enough to propose Fusion HCI in combination with Wotsonx.AI for generative AI environment. We need H100 support to win.
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1

Enable TS7700 for Open Systems bei Adding the S3 Protocol

The TS700 has everything enterprise customers need. It has backend tape, it is a grid, it has all replication capabilities and so on. It could be the perfect system for multipetabyte data from open systems, e.g. tiering from data to tape out of co...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Missing informational event for rear door open status

While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
9 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 1 Future consideration

The 'System Down' field is not specified when Storage Insights is used to open a support ticket

When using Storage Insights to create a ticket for a monitored storage system, there is nowhere to specify a value for 'System Down' field. Depending on the device type, the 'System Down' field may be a required field in the IBM Support Portal, in...
25 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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