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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    TS7700 active data in client interface

    Need an easy way for the client to identify the amount of 'active data' maintained in a TS7700 cluster. Today this metric can only be obtained via BVIR/VEHSTATS and this creates a huge overhead if not implemented to get this metric. It would be mu...
    almost 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Not under consideration

    Remote web client for BA client

    Evidently, the TSM BA client functionality is limited when launched remotely. When using the BA client locally on Linux or Windows you can edit client preferences. When launching the BA client remotely, client preferences are not available. The on...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Virtualize does not warn or advise about number of backend paths

    Spectrum Virtualize family of products do not advise administrators of missing paths (started at 4 and dropped to 2) nor does it advise when you have too few paths (2 instead of say 6 needed to take full advantage of backend storage) in the GUI or...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Specturm Virtualize does not provide a warning for too many paths being presented to hosts.

    Spectrum Virtualize does not provide a warning nor prevention of too many paths visible to hosts. This is very common and causes many performance impacts or non-optimal performance.
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Create new user group and role that can only Start/Stop Remote Support Assistance

    Currently administrator or restricted administrator role is needed to start or stop a remote support access session. This does not meet our security requirements since this role can perform many other functions. We want a role that does only one t...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    TSM is not supproted on p7 except in p6 compatibility mode

    TSM on p7 hardware requires that you run the LPAR in p6 compatibility mode. This is a Java/DB2 limitation during the install or upgrade. This limitation should be fixed as it nullifies the reason for migrating to better/faster hardware. http://www...
    about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Manually running cloud offload per VM

    Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run VM backups manually by selecting the VM and clicking the "run" button.When we want run replication or offload we need to run the schedule.We should be able run run replication or offload jobs per VM manually ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling

    Enhance the limitations of the ‚options=‘-Flag of TSM Schedules.Today: 512 Characters Limitation. Must be >= 2048 Characters to cover more than 30 VMs per schedule
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Enabling the NVMe over TCP/IP with 5G network connectivity

    1- Adding Advanced functionalities with easy programming for storage operations. 2- Enabling Fast, Standard, Reliable and Remote Storage Area Networking.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

    Adding the NVMe over TCP/IP to the DS 8000 Connectivity and functionalities

    The benefits are: 1-Enabling the DS8000 Storage to be integrated with Distributed Sysplex and Edge Computing based on 5G Networks. 2- Enabling the DS8000 to transfer data over unified 5G network with Edge Computing. 3-Enabling the Intelligent Mana...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

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