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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    ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

    We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
    2 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted

    Support for VMware v9.0

    Support for VMware Cloud foundation v9.0
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Submitted

    Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

    Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Options for SPS Offload

    The tape_backup function creates a "db2 backup database" command for the offload of a FlashCopy image to TSM. This works fine but I am not able to add any backup options to this command. It is assembled by SPS. But it would be very useful to add o...
    3 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Submitted

    Request to add a feature that allows administrators to check the amount of data stored in each bucket or user/user group.

    When providing Deep Archive like a cloud service, it is necessary to check the usage amount for each user with administrator commands and charge according to capacity, as well as issue warnings for “excessive use.”
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    We would like TDMF to be able to increase the size of the VTOC during a migration also for same sized volumes, not only from a smaller to a larger volume.

    It would be a nice improvement to take advantage of a migration with TDMF to be able to expand the size of the vtoc for same sized volumes. We don't unerstand that it can do it only from smaller to larger volumes meanwhile it has the ability to do...
    9 months ago in TDMF z/OS 0 Submitted

    TS4300 Deep Archive Support

    I would like to request Deep Archive support for TS4300 by 4Q 2025.　Deep Archive support for TS4300 is required for implementation in the customer's PoC environment.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    SP Server certificate management

    Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Support for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

    Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

    Improve how to change volume population rate

    If the rate for a volume population should get changed (default 2 MB/s) it is required at first to display the "populating_mapping_id" using "lsvolumepopulation -showhidden". Then this "populating_mapping_id" must be used with the command "chfcmap...
    1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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