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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    Increase logical paths limit of 512 for Control Unit

    We had this idea opened for z/OS and HCD (https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4129), but through cases TS017155124 and TS017074516, it was suggested to open an IDEA directed to the DS8Ks. We use shared DASDs to t...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

    use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    To expand TPI functionality to include the startrcconsistgrp command

    Hi IBM, While exploring the TPI functionality, I would like to suggest for an enhancement pertaining to expanding TPI functionality for restricted admin role to include the "startrcconsistgrp" command. This will be useful when allowing storage ope...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    add unmap enable/disable option to gui

    Default for flashsystem is host unmap off, and this feature is invisible to client until they hit 80% capacity or oos an support advise to enable it. We also want to keep clients in the gui, so it might be worth adding this option to the GUI.
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

    When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

    We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
    10 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Power off enhancement for node/system

    By moving the Power Off feature to service, we dont run into the "issue" with only local "power on" possible. Here we face different admins who can power off a node in troubleshooting not really thinking about that it can only be powered on using ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Enable multiple local user accounts alongside LDAP authentication on DS8000 (hybrid model)

    Currently, DS8000 only allows a single local Administrator account as a fallback on LDAP. While this is useful for recovery, it is not sufficient for real production use. In practice, customers rely on several technical and service accounts to ope...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

    Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    In Fusion HCI console, under backups, there must be an option to delete one or more backups

    It's useful, because of quick management of the backups, usable for anyone.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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