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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 5425

Inclusion of a REST API to interface with the TS7700 MI

Add a REST API to the TS7700 MI to gather operational and performance statistics.
almost 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

distributed "lsof" or "fuser"?

Currently, there is no way of getting information on open files/directories per device/fileset/subdirectory on any node. The option to run "mmdsh -N all lsof /my/path/to/fileset" isn't really feasible on large clusters. As a distributed file syste...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Support for TSM USS Client

System: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS USS Client and API (5698-B22)Actor: ITERGO Informationstechnologie TSM B/A is a standard product spreaded over all different kinds of operating systems. For z/OS, TSM USS Client is used to backup and res...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file.

1. Problem: When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file. For example, consider a pdf file (fileA.pdf) that h...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog. Problem Statement: Today Storage Fusion Catalog has regular expression (regex) pattern matching capability to detect PII in unstructured data. Wh...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Options to disable Dual control for few sessions

We have enabled dual control for our CSM server, but there are some sessions which are managed by API or manual control. In those cases, having dual control makes it little difficult to implement since we need a 2nd ID to approve the activity. Wou...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Add vSnap Utilisation to the 'Protected VMs Report'

There is not currently an option within SPP to show how much capacity a particular VM is using on the vSnap Storage. This could be displayed either in the vSnap Utilisation Report, or the Protected VMs report.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).

Add data collector support for Linux operating systems on IBM Power® systems (PPC64, Big Endian).
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Summary of all SLA Timings

A Gannt view of SLA timings would illustrate resource utilisation, where it may be useful to change schedule times to avoid contention and where extra resources may be neededCould also compare the previous night with the average from the past week...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.