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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    DS8000 IP Replication Option

    The Home Depot is moving to an IP over Ethernet only WAN. Their network team's direction is to eliminate FC-IP routers which will require storage arrays to be able to replicate natively over IP. This capability will be taken into consideration for...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Increase number of dependent filesets

    Guardant Health is using Kubernetes to control their workflow. They will have thousands of jobs and they will need thausands of PVCs. The projection is that they will go over the 10,000 fileset limit in 2022. The target for 2022 would be at least ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Event log enhancements

    Enhanced monitor of internal process and better detail on issues. Lack of reporting on critical internal components hinders determination of issues and recovery.
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Whitelist IP/Subnet for VADP/VSNAP NFS mounts

    Ability to whitelist IP/Subnet for inbound NFS mounts. Customers who use NAT/masquerade clients on different subnets reach timeouts when attempting to mount shares due to the client IP mismatched from the NAT IP, assuming entries listed within /et...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add ability to specify SSH port and REST API port (if REST API used for UserID/Password connection

    We have storage devices running that will not be upgraded to 8.6 for some time (or never), but are accessible only through NAT firewall gateways. The SSH daemon is accessible via ports that are not 22. Cisco and Brocades allow the REST API port nu...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    starting SLA dialog not enough information

    When you manually start an SLA, a "Start Options" dialog box pops up and you have to click "OK" to start the SLA, it would be nice if you can see which SLA (the name of the SLA) you are starting... All you see is the words "SLA Policy" and a combo...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

    Alert when Storwize devices are seeing slow internode traffic

    If the internode traffic is too high for an extended period of time, send out a warning. If it above a certain threshold, send out an error. I'm not sure what the warning/error thresholds should be ( I'll leave that to IBM ). In this situation rel...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    One hot-spare node for multiple SVC clusters

    Some of the customers have multiple SVC clusters, but all the nodes are located at the same two sites. It would be a great enhancement if the hot-spare node would not be bound to one specific cluster but could be bound to multiple clusters. With t...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Server command to change/migrate node config from one TSM instance/server to another

    When running a TSM environment with multiple servers and TSM instances on each server - and not always having direct access on all clients - it will be useful if a TSM administrator could issue a server command to tell a client to change its confi...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block

    Spectrum Scale can't prioritize small I/O over Serial data block. A data transfer being done by one customer does work fast but the other user can't even ls specifics directories.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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