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 5459 of 5459

Add FLR support for BTRFS in Spectrum Data Protection for Virtual Environments

File Level Restores for BTRFS subvolumes do not work out of the box when using any of the restore interfaces with Spectrum Data Protect for Virtual Environments. Remounting the iSCSI presented snapshot allows for correct mount, but yes, this invol...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Select Node, which using Encryption, from Server

We have system with nearly 11000 nodes and I would like to know as Server-Administrator, which nodes have encrypted data and can be affected by some changes.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Exchange large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters

ZF has the requirement to exchange mainly large files (> 4GB) between Spectrum Scale and Spectrum Archive clusters in Germany and Poland. The capacities to be exported are up to 500 TB per day. The requirement is that the files that are exchang...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Future consideration

Report Restore VM in SPP

Auditor person want to report restore same as menu function report vm backup history but in ibm spectrum protect plus not have
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

add "estimated time to full" on the reports

The on prem version of Storage Insights has the ability to have a column with "estimated time to full", which is important to our environment, this is not available on the cloud version of the software.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Scale automatic kernel modules

The technology is there to make this happen, especially if using Enterprise distributions such as Red Hat or Suse. You can also throw Ubuntu to some extent in the mix as they don't apply kAPI breaking changes very often. Our customer was successfu...
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

TS7700 Feature License panel should list "enabled"

Add column to feature license panel. Features are listed as activated but does not indicate if enabled. The additional column could be "Status" - ENABLED/DISABLED or "Enabled" YES/NO. Another option would be to issue a CLI command listing all lice...
about 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Backup Solution for Oracle 19c

We have to be able to backup Oracle 19c
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Planned for future release

On install OC accept unaccepted characters in the password , installation fails later on.

On install of Operations Center one is requested to enter a password, a list of special character is listed however the installer at this point do not check if the password I enter is valid. The installation continues but hangs later on installing...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support LibFabrics

As more high speed networks are available (IB,OmniPath, Etc ROCE, other RDMA capable networks) The Open Fabrics org has defined a more generic interface then libverbs (which is very network specific) to enable make it easier to take advantage of n...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

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.