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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    Enhance recovery function for Spectrum Archive

    In Spectrum Archive there are a missing recovery function to reimport the structure of the fs, the zero byte files and a procedure to reimport the ltfsee tape after a disaster or a loss of the filesystems on spectrum scale. The function should be ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

    Concurrent failover of SVC Config node

    Currently if the SVC cluster needs to fail over the config node it causes the hardware node that is the config node to reboot. This can expose problems to the paths and servers connected to this node, which can lead to loss of access or the necess...
    almost 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    VMware dissimilar recovery

    Ability to select VMware side components, such as available LUNs and network interfaces, during recovery of VMs to alternate environments. This would allow VMs to be restored and function with the configuration which is dissimilar to the original
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    TS7760 / Introduce 10GB Ethernet SW

    A French customer, CNP Assurance use only 10 GbE SW in their network.The 3 TS7760 the just bought in 2019 don't use it and they need to install a 10 GbE LW just for the TS7760.They think it is a old fashioned tech and wants to abandon it.
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Flashcopy snapshot on stretched cluster volume should have same preffered node as the source volume

    When creating a snapshot, flashcopy volumes are assigned on a round robin method. When in a stretched cluster scenario, when you create a snapshot, you want to keep the snapshot at the same site as the source volume to prevent unwanted I/O on the ...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    gpfs client support rocky linux

    we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers， for example rocky linux
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Snooze alert in Storage Insights

    As a SI user admin , I want to be able to Snooze a notification so that I can prioritize the work to be done
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Certificate used on port 1751

    DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Flashsystem 7200 expansion enclosure NVME

    The expansion enclosures of the flashsystem 7200 do not support NVME. All government agency procurement processes are requesting and we are taking a beating from Dell, Purestorage and Huawey. We need to fix this or we will no longer sell to govern...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Allow Multiple MGM sessions per LSS

    Please allow us to split LSS device ranges into multiple MGM sessions. Devices on a LSS could still be contiguous per session, but would like to split those between sessions.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

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