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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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Dedupstats continuous update

Having an option to enable background updating of dedupstats is preferred to running 'update dedupstats *' every day. 'update dedupstats' should only have to be run if information in dedupstats has become inconsistent.This could be a background pr...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Confusing status message 'mmlspdisk'

My Client submits the following:After carrier release the status is even more confusing [DIARSS root@ems1-xcat ~]# mmlspdisk all --not-okpdisk: replacementPriority = 6.77 name = "e1d2s02" device = "//essio32.ib.rsshpc1/dev/sdpe(notEnabled/closed),...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow filespace deletion for non-replicated nodes without blocking replication stgrule execution

Currently, a replication storage rule fails when a delete filespace is already running. The following messages is issued: ANR1079E Storage rule REPLICATION did not start a tiering process because a DELETE FILESPACE operation is in progress. I can ...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Improvement of usability by implementing a HOST command in dsmadmc

By using a HOST command or special character, commands can be issued at operating system level and you do not have to log out of dsmadmc.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Tickets created with SI should have same info added to the ticket when created by phone home

When an SVC "phones home", the ticket generated includes the following information - Client would like this same information automatically generated when they create a ticket with SI. Today, only the serial number is passed. Client does leverages ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enable a search field for select a Virtual Machines into the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments console.

Having a several vcenters, and into each Vcenter a huge among of virtual machines, it is hard to find one a VM to selected it to backup. We waste of time looking for these VMs, when we do not know which Vcenter it belong, so we need to display all...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated

Allow the Repository Server IP hostname/port to be updated in the SPP Gui to cater for infrastructure changes where the SP server IP address has changedand to allow the possiblity to allow the SPP server to be repointed to the failover object agen...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Tape management in Operations Center

Using the TSM Operations Center - manage tape. Checkin, checkout, volume occupancy.
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration