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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Pinned ideas

PINNED FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage
FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
Share feedback 4

All ideas

    Showing 6074 of 6074

    IBM Spectrum Protect define replication server can use multiple ip on tsm server

    we want define replication server use multiple ip on tsm server . or can we use hostname for replication server and then add multiple ip resolve onetc/hosts ?
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    All GPFS services need to support FIPS.

    Because of DISA-STIG requirements, all systems we use must enable FIPS. mmcallhome (and maybe other components of GPFS) use MD5 summing, which will not work on a FIPS enabled system. This needs to be fixed.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Enhancement Grid control function to fence a cluster automatically when the grid network were unstable.

    When the grid network was unstable Hydra Domain Manager on each cluster could be also unstable and cause to wait for logical volume mounting. If the network disconnected completely, the status of the cluster(s) could be changed into "not operation...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 9 Not under consideration

    Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

    My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    SVCDTA volumes with same Preferred Node As source

    We are creating snapshot on Flashsytem 7200 using a SVCDTA configuration;volumes are created automatically but not on the same preferred node as the source volume. According IBM to IBM best practices (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/flashcopy-co...
    about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Dismount volume ALL - Add extra functionality

    In a environment with a lot of tapedrives (VTL) sometimes you want to dismount ALL the volumes at once. We use TSM Library Managers for VTL's > 256 drives. Each time you have to wait a couple of minutes (devclass - mountret) before al volumes a...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    BA client bind to specific IP

    We need to run multiple DSMC SCHED on the same windows machine and we use sessioninit=serveronly. Due to firewall restrictions we are required to use only 1 single port. For each DSMC SCHED we have a separate IP and defined tcpclientaddress in dsm...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Differential retention of replicated backup data coming from databases like DB2

    Submitting on behalf of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee. Customer would like Spectrum Protect and DB2 to cooperate on retention of backup data from databases such that it could be retained at a primary site for a longer amount of time than it ...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Compression tool to measure performance and cache impact

    Compression tool that allows assessment of performance impact, and not just disk space recovered. Also determine cache usage (enough for data compression ?)
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

    This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Functionality already exists

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.