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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    Ship ESS Bundles with full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repo

    ESS Bundles currently ship with a crippled set of RPMs from the RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. We want that the ESS Bundles are ship with the full RHEL BaseOS and AppStream Repos. Please revert back to what you've initially done with GSS and shi...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future 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 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

    Allow to expand the size of volumes in a Flashcopy mapping

    Currently it is not allowed to expand the size of a volume which is part of a flashcopy mapping. This restriction should be removed.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Avoid dropping instance while upgrade

    Upgrading to current IBM Spectrum Protect Version drops instance during installation in silent mode although settings in responsefile to not touch/update the DB were set.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Increase independent inode filesets from 1000 to 32k

    We have a customer that requires their projects separated via independent inode filesets. They are against the 1000 fileset limit and need it to be increased to a more realistic number.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    support for runnign VMs in GPFS (see TS003291090)

    See TS003291090 If a KVM host runs GPFS client and mounts a filesystem from a gpfs cluster. The KVM host runs a VM which uses a container file stored in the same file system under a independent fileset named kvm01 which is under the root fileset. ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

    We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    Report and Update Quota's better

    Spectrum Scale has commands of mmlsquota, mmedquota, mmrepquota and mmsetquota to update and control quotas. It would be helpful to be able to copy quotas between users, filesets and groups in a flexable fasion, both within the same filesystem (wh...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Administracion DS8K interactividad entre GUI y CLI

    El cliente tiene la necesidad de interactuar entre comando de linea CLI y interfaz grafica GUI, tanto via software de la cambia como via CSM. Se solicita que la cabina autorefresque cada cierto tiempo para que los cambios realizados via CLI se vea...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Detailed progress screen for cloud offload and replication operations.

    On the Spectrum Protect Plus backup screen, we can see detailed information about the backed up machines and the process in the progress section.But we cannot see detailed information during replication and cloud offload operations.Replication and...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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