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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    Loss of change block tracking files

    Implement a mechanism allowing in the event of loss or corruption of CBT files not to redo a full backup.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Integrity control for stored datas on vsnap

    Set up an integrity check to validate that the data that was copied to the vsnap server are valid.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    ELB not managed by TPC/R

    For an effective and convenient management of a DS8000 replication environment, it would be very useful if TPC-R could manage ELB timeout for every LCU/LSS in a MM/MGM environment. In fact, a clear display of this parameter for the session (e.g. t...
    over 12 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Full Active Directory Intergration

    Full Active Directory Integration as a single signon solution
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Safegard Copy functionality running on FS5015/5035

    There are many small/medium companies in Japan. If the Safegard Copy function works with FS5015/5035, I believe I can aggressively propose it to small and medium-sized companies.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Option to not automatically create mountpoints

    When a Filesystem is created, GPFS makes sure, the mountpoint is created on all client nodes. We need an option to suppress this behaviour.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    ENCRYPTIONType AES256 can be reduced to AES128 with a client option set

    Extend the client option srvoptsetencryptiondisabled that even the encryptiontype can't be overruled with a client options set.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Is a defect

    Container Storage Interface support of Endurance storage and Portworx storage.

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Container Storage Interface currently do not support Endurance storage or Portworx.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Prevent data moving processes starting up when expire inventory is running

    Since expire inventory needs to be running more or less alone, preventing other datamoving tasks from running could reduce amount of failures to the DB tables that would render future expire inventory run into errors. Maybe something like this ex...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Display drive FRU in drive properties

    Display Drive FRU in Drive properties | hardware tab. This information should be displayed next to "name", "status" , "acknowledged"... under internal resource|properties
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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