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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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Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

change tape read/write throughput rates

Testing of Tapeoperations (move data) and got a throughput of only 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s with LTO7 tapedrives - in a Situation where nothing else happened
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

can not use Spectrum protect over san in ERP Database

We was working with AIX os and use Spectrum protect to backup the ERP Database on it using Oversan We moved the production server to SUSE enterprise 15 , but now the problem as in the case that over san is not supported with suse 15, and it is urg...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future 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

SSO login for CLI

For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Tape Library Support

Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

TS77 should write SMF as DS8* systems do

Hi, as everybody else who uses TS7700, we also use BVIR (available within Tape Tools). BVIR makes it possible to get the reports about TS7700 performance, usage, virtual volumes, physical volumes, etc.. Unfortunately, right now we don’t really ...
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Oracle DB support on Windows for Spectrum Protect Plus

Spectrum Protect Plus ( actual version 10.1.0.3) is supporting backup of Oracle databases on Linux and AIX environments but not on Windows. It is not even on the road map. There is a big need to have this database vendor supported on Windows as it...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7770 - Copy of TCT objects written by DS8910 on a TS7770 bucket to physical tape

BrB - Banco de Brasilia, is requesting our support to have objects stored on TS77700 through DS8910 TCT function been moved physical tape.
almost 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release