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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    Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

    Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Multi session restore from container pool should result in load balanced sessions

    Technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993961 documents how to tweak the SDNQRSESSSIZE parameter for multi session restores, however the sessions created are not load balanced. This can result in the restore sessions not being...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

    To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

    Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

    Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Proxy Support for Spectrum Protect Operation Center

    Possiblilty to configure Spectrum Protect Operation Center (hub instance) to use a http/https proxy server for downloading client packages used for the client autodeployment feature.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 5 Not under consideration

    Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

    Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    Add a dedicated time frame for media verification function

    We would like to define a dedicated time frame in the media verification function so that this verification function is not active during daily backups. This will allow you to unassign the tape drives to this verification function and assign them ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

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