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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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Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 Password Policy

Per customer request:Spectrum Virtualize Password Policies Hello we would like to use the password policy in Spectrum Virtualize; however, we do not want the policy implemented for superuser, tpc user or storage insights (SIadmin) user. How can we...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Redirect GUI DB to a different directory

This RFE is to allow users for setting the PG_DATA environment in Scale GUI for redirecting the database outside the root directory of the system.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Reclaim of offsite Filling volumes

On old style copypools and the new style protect stg to local tape, reclaim does not occur on tape volumes in state Filling.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Direct links to custom dashboards

Allow the ability to directly link to a custom dashboard. In large environments with many different teams, being able to send a direct link to a custom dashboard for that team would be helpful. Also being able to bookmark a dashboard or to use it ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Overlay / Namespace support information (Singularity Containers)

Singularity (https://sylabs.io/singularity) is a container runtime commonly used on HPC systems that include GPFS filesystems. We are trying to understand the level of support in GPFS for overlay mounts (upperdir & lowerdir), and namespaces (i...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Capacity Threshold Alerting

The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Lock contention Issue

DB2 locking of a file or portion of a file with direct IO enabled causes issues with mmrestripe from a lock contention prespective.This should be addressed. The decision to change the disk location of a block and not allowing anyone to alter a blo...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Collapse all option desired for GUI Volumes dialog

In the FlashSystem / Storage Virtualize GUI, the Volumes option lists three lines for every primary volume in a HyperSwap configuration. Each primary volume has a 'twistie' to close the secondary line items, but all volumes are expanded on dialog ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support use of Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) in virtual mode in conjunction with the IBM FlashSystem SRA in VMware SRM

MSP wants to provide possiblity of this setup to one of their tenants.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

define clientaction - change of default values

The define clientaction command, if executed without any parameters, starts an incremental backup on all nodes in all domains. This is potential risk because the administrator can make a mistake and press enter key before entering any parameters. ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration