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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    Provide GUI option to list TS7700 virtual tape components with serial numbers

    Hello, Recently we run into issue while tried MES upgrade an existing TS7700 virtual tape system. The IBM inventory services were not capable to list all components of the VTS, and for manually could add them to the configuration we would have to ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1

    Spectrum Scale Call Home for AIX

    Provide the Call Home feature for AIX like the Linux feature
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    UPD SCHED RANDOMIZE=##

    Requesting to allow setting a schedule randomization override for specific schedules.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series

    Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Planned for future release

    Client Deploy should be able to update TDP clients, or at least skip clients which should not be upgraded w/o TDP updates.

    The current client deploy is not TDP aware. It is up to us to track which of the 8000 clients belong on the same host, and which ones are TDP. In some cases, seeing the policy domain and node name is enough to figure it out, but not always. Some T...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

    If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    SPP support for Cloud applications

    Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    New client/API interface

    Make a new client interface for data communication on SP-server. Which can support new functionality and to which ALL new clients will use. Clients can then have: * Auto upgrade clients, option in server and node* Better agent, functionality* And ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Resources > Hosts view does not show the Health Summary status table

    The Hosts view (Resources > Hosts) does not show the Health Summary status table at the top of the page, next to the device image. In comparison, reviewing all the other Resource views, they all have the Health Summary status table: - Resources...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Tickets created with SI should have same info added to the ticket when created by phone home

    When an SVC "phones home", the ticket generated includes the following information - Client would like this same information automatically generated when they create a ticket with SI. Today, only the serial number is passed. Client does leverages ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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