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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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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Lun expansion without deleting existing mirror relationship

Enable the posibility of lun expansion for luns that are in a mirror relationship.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enhance SVC to provide virtual FC ports to remove dependancy on multipath driver during upgrades

Need to enhance SVC design to meet stringent customer functional requirement currently not achievable by SVC core design.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 512

The current limit of 512 compressed volumes per I/O group imposes challenges in the field with customers that want to increase coverage of compression in their environment by increasing the number of compressed volumes that they already use. In ma...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Storwize Family - IP Replication - Required command with advanced options - ping -i , traceroute, telnet

There is a need for the availability of the following commands on the Storwize codes especially for the purpose of configuring/troubleshooting IP based replication. 1. ping command including advanced options- ping -i 2. traceroute command uncludin...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Host Description in SVC/Storwize V7000 GUI

SVC GUI currently does not have a "description" for hosts. Often customers use cryptic names (eg DLCS001) for their servers and therefore host names within SVC GUI. Therefore the host name does not contain any information about location, applicati...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Storwize / SVC - Increase of two relationships per vdisk

The current limit of one relationship allowed per vdisk limits the capability of the system to allow 3 or 4 site topology requirements without the use of flashcopies and essentially scripts / external tools to facilitate this.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storage Insights Monitor role Read Only

Hello, This is a feature request To use Storage Insights / Spectrum Control and monitor your Storwize V7000 family, you need to add the Storwize in Storage Insights / Spectrum Control with ad administrator role. When using Storage Insights this is...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Multi-tenancy Capability with SVC

We are building the accounts for the AIX team to use to start their jobs. We want to be able to lock down jobs/volumes to certain logins
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Gen 3 Storwize V7000 shows theoretical maximum capacity, instead of real one

product_id 10140648FRU_part_number 01YM583These Flashcore modules installed in Gen 3 Storwize v7000 units show 3 kinds of capacity figures:- Capacity: This figure shows a fixed 20 TB value, which is a theoretical value, that CAN be achieved throug...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Resync an entire Remote copy consistency group

In the event of loss of consistency due to the loss of volumes (for whatever reason), it would be better to force the entire consistency group to resync rather than the current process of deleting and re-creating all of the relationships in the co...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered