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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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Add number of mounts to REST GET DataCartridges response

With the new media lifecycle information provided in mount history report and via REST, clienst will also want to know the number of mounts for cartridges. The mount history report provides the mount count, the REST API doesn't. For automation pur...
5 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered
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Request for TSM to handle different retentions for Virtual Environments

To be able to perform Incremental forever backups using different retentions (such as daily, monthly and anually). Currently, TSM for VE cannot use the same set of backups to assign different retentions. Only one management class is possible.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Delivered

TS4500 media end-of-life monitoring

LTO and 3592 (Jaguar) media have a limited lifetime based on some specific internal measurements like number of loads, number of times completely written/read. The drive posts an alert once one of these internal thresholds have been crossed. At a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 6 Delivered

SCSI Unmap support Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series

We are reqeusting the support of the SCSI Unmap command for Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series on Spectrum Virtualize systems.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot (FlashCopy Manager) support for SAP HANA

Enable IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot to take a hardware based snapshot for a system running SAP HANA on either IBM Linux on Power or Linux. In essence addition of SAP HANA to the already supported applications/databases of IBM Spectrum Protect Sna...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Delivered

Builtin scheduler for creating Spectrum Virtualize snapshots

Customer had a competitor's array which has a builtin scheduler for creating snapshots. He is requesting same functionality. We have SPP to address some requirements but not all, for e.g. file and print volumes which are really large
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Different email sender and contact email address for Spec V products

To have different email sender and customer contact email address in the callhome settings.(this is possible in FlashSystem A9000/R - but not in SpecV products)
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Public REST API For Storage Insights

Client would like Storage Insights to include a Restful API - similar to the one included in Spectrum Control.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 6 Delivered

Allow monitor role to execute cpdumps command

To pull performance stats from non config nodes the cpdumps command is used. Unfortunately users in the Monitor group are not authorized to run this command. The resulting error is "CMMVC6253E The task has failed because the user's role is not aut...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s

Upper cache(Vc) and lower cache(Vcc) read, write, stage, destage and total metrics are currently only displayed in IO/s in Storage Insights. I would like to have the option of seeing this in MB/s as well.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered