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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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Provide method to move VMs & associated backups between different data centers

We have a deployment coming up where the VMWare administrators are creating a new data center within the same vCenter and VMs from the existing data centers are going to be moved to the new data center. I opened a PMR to find out if there was a wa...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Future consideration

Dynamic RAID / Declustered RAID for Next DS8880

Distributed RAID or Declustered RAID or Dynamic RAID is especially popular with RAID-6 (what is now a default), and larger drive capacities.With larger drive capacities, the rebuild times in general grow a lot. Now this Distributed RAID not only d...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Storage Device hierarchy - Virtualizer vs Storage devices

Spectrum Control must provide a hierarchical view of storage devices to show dependencies between backend devices and storage virtualisers such as Spectrum Virtualise or Scale.Today all are considered Storage devices and presented through a flat v...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Allow VDI timeout to be user controlled (SP for MSSQL, legacy backups)

When using Spectrum Protect's data protection for MSSQL (legacy backups), there is a hardcoded timeout limit for the TDP to wait for the availability of the VDI. Currently this is set to 60 seconds, and can only be observed by tracing the TDP oper...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

HDFS support for scanning

Allow Spectrum Discover to scan hdfs data lake environments to identify data candidates for our use cases (AI, governance, data heat).
about 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

TDP for ERP - Support for Oracle 12c

TDP for ERP is not supported for Oracle 12c.Oracle 12c was certified for SAP on March 2015.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Not under consideration

nsdInlineWriteMax >8K

Dear developers Please enable feature nsdInlineWriteMax >8K for version 5.0.1.x with RDMA enabled. We are using it for small files writing. It's working for version 4.2.3.x Regards Alexander
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

GUI should indicate if TS7700 is in 'skip' mode

We had a long VTS outage during which time errors were not being reported due to the VTS being in 'skip' mode. We would like some visible notification of the VTS being in 'skip' mode or health status screen that would show all the current componen...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Storing File Permission and ACL on LTFS

Because of our security requirement we want to store the file and acl permissions, owner and group info already for the files that are migrated to tape with spectrum archive.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration