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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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Migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups

Customers want the ability to migrate VM's to new SLA's without taking new full backups. This is due to when customers want to split VMs up already in existing SLAs currently this needs a full backup to be re-run and therefore more space needed in...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Callhome for Node Reboot

IBM node panic Rebooted on 09/17, but no callhome generated to IBM(TS017220322) In event of Node reboots due to any bug may go unnoticed if the node comes up within 30 mins. Fidelity would like to generate a callhome to IBM and a case should open ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

customize commandapproval commands

SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

Need web client support in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.2 or later server.

Web client is extensively used in our environment ( TSM 8.1.1). To fix bugs that are impacting user jobs, TSM will be upgraded to V8.1.3 in the near future.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 9 Not under consideration

Implement certificate validation

Currently certificates are not validated. If a corrupted/defect certificate is uploaded, the library just accept it, and the gui will be broken/not accessible any more. The only way to fix this is to directly access the gui via the panel on your (...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

The 'System Down' field is not specified when Storage Insights is used to open a support ticket

When using Storage Insights to create a ticket for a monitored storage system, there is nowhere to specify a value for 'System Down' field. Depending on the device type, the 'System Down' field may be a required field in the IBM Support Portal, in...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Node lock

Currently node is locked on first incorrect password. Problem is if the user wants a new password and we reset the node password on the server and inform user of the password, the user need to start gui/cli to enter new password. But the first thi...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Secure Data Deletion/Erase with IBM to automatically generate a confirmation document

After succesful deletion/erase of data on drives, an IBM document of comfirmation would help to comply with internal client security guidelines Currently we can use:- SV internal commands chdrive -task erase/format commands or we can provide- Secu...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Suppression of ro BR token when reading at RO mode

A BR token is used to keep cache coherency of data across nodes. We experienced that 'ro BR' token is requested by each node even other nodes read the same rage of data at the same time. Unless the range is never changed by all nodes, getting of r...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration