Skip to Main Content
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

All ideas

Showing 5454

compressed volumes copy count in lsiogrp

The "compressed volume copy count" is restricted by an io_group. But one needs several commands (with filter) to get the "compressed volume copy count" per io_group. It would be nice if another column added to the command "lsiogrp" with a counter ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

This applies to Spectrum CDM: Oracle settings after a restore

When running a Spectrum CDM restore job that will mount an Oracle instance from a snapshot on a host, automatic Oracle setting coming from Spectrum CDM does not enable to restart automatically Oracle instance if the host is rebooted after the rest...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Backing-Out CSM upgrade on DS8K Box.

1. The ability to revert/back-out/uninstall a CSM upgrade on a DS8K machine and reinstate the CSM server software that was just overlaid with the new code.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Make volume mappings read-only

For optimal backup of vmware virtual infrastructures the backup proxies (OS: Windows) need direct access to vmfs volumes over san. A small miss configuration/bug of a windows proxy host has a big chance of loosing the complete vm environment throu...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Include SNMP agent's IP address ( Strowize cluster IP) into SNMP trap

Our client use the SNMP agent IP address to filter the SNMP trap. But our Storwize systems are not send the IP-address with the SNMP trap. All other systems from IBM and other vendors send the IP- address within the trap. We know that the SNMP V2 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Earlier warning for SVC UPS Battery EOL

Banner Health is requesting MUCH earlier warning of SVC-UPS Battery EOL/Failure/Exhaustion so that planned battery replacement can occur instead of emergency battery replacement, or worse - SVC Cluster outage. If possible, several months earlier w...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

change schedules in vcenter with ie10

i cannot changes schedules in vcenter with ie10
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Skip or Exclude Virtual Machine SRM Placeholders

During a backup of VM's, TSM for VE does not recognize SRM Placeholders as unique and attempts to back them up like a regular VM, but since they are not true VM's, the backups fail. Need a way to have TSM for VE recognize SRM placeholders and skip...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Migrate Inactive Data from StoragePools

Need the ability to migrate inactive data from storage pools. When large disk pools are used (typically with dedup) and these pools fill, there is no way to automatically migrate data in a selective manner. Using Age based migration rules results ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Streamline total indexed objects count

Since the introduction of the Spectrum Protect feature, Spectrum Discover does no longer report the total number of indexed objects. We see the total number of objects that are non-Spectrum Protect specific in the respective tab and we see the tot...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release