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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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...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

AI Based Replication Window Recommendation to Avoid Load on IBM Storage Protect Server

There can be situations when source and target replication servers are not in sync. Causing delay in replication process to end. May be because the specific window of replication used was not enough to replicate source data to target server. Or th...
30 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Add support for reverse flashcopy with HyperSwap volumes

Currently a reverse flashcopy (restore) is not supported to a HyperSwap volume. The request is to be able to do a restore of a flashcopy to a hyperswap volume.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

pseudo admin to administer and manage the box/users without access to destructive commands

We would like to have the ability to create a pseudo admin userid which has the ability access and manage all settings on the ds8ks and perform user account management but without all the other powerful options / dscli commands commonly used by th...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Upgrade Storage Archive EE cluster(10 nodes+2 libraries) node by node without stopping migrate and recall service

Baidu Netdisk had bought lots of tape libraries to store their cool data. Their solution is Storage Scale + Storage Archive EE+ TS4500. Recently they met an Archive bug, and IBM EE team had found the root cause and provided a fix, Baidu Netdisk ha...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for AWS Outposts with FlashSystem Storage.

Currently NetApp and Pure Storage seem to be the only vendors which do support this on-premises delivery model for Amazon. If we had support for this as part of the FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize portfolio, our Business Partners would have an IBM ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Need for support the combination of AIX 7.2 TL5SP4 and DSCLI in a Japanese language environment.

After updating AIX7.2 TL1SP2 to AIX7.2 TL5SP4, DSCLI doesn't display Japanese characters (Shift JIS, IBM-943) correctly. Support personnel explain that it is known as a limitation of S-JIS and advised to use English or UTF-8 instead of S-JIS. Howe...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

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