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

IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

Showing 671

Mirrored volume Sync column added in Volume view of GUI

Allow the sync value of volume copies to be displayed in the volume view of the Storwize GUI. This information is available from the CLI command (lsvdiskcopy). Requesting to add this visibility from the GUI.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

IBM SVC- request ability in V7.x GUI to create multi-volume (plus symbol) capability like in pre-V7.x GUI.

Pre-V7.x GUI, when creating New Volume there existed an ability to enter a (Volume Name, Size, # of Volumes) and ability to click on (plus symbol) to add new line for entering additional New Volumes. Appears that starting in V7.1.0.x GUI, that whe...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Enable SNMP access

The V7000 support only SNMP Traps. It would be nice to monitor with SNMP MIB, so that a healthy state could also be determined.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

128 mdisk per pool

The SVC has a limit from 128 mdisk per mdiskpool.This limit is clearly too small for performant enfironment. We need at least 512 mdisk or 1024 mdisks per pool. So the memory for caching can be better utilized. A breakdown of the memory does not m...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

snmp event testing functionality

One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

add awk to restricted shell in spectrum virtualize

please add awk to available commands in restricted shell on storwize / spectrum virtualize systems
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Hung Process control

During the time of impact to the GUI we encountered an issue with generating support saves which slowed down and increased delays in recovery. If there was a method to kill the current running process used for the support save collection, it might...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

indication of severity in the notification e-mail subject line

Currently, all notification e-mails shows "warning" in the subject line. Customer cannot which one needs immediate action and which one is really just a warning. Since each event is classified as "warning" or "error", the corresponding notificatio...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Increase available information on Audit log screen and reinstate scroll bars

In Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.0.2 (SVC) the Audit log screen layout and functionality has changed compared to 8.4.0.6. Up until 8.4 there are 21 entries visible, on 8.5 this is reducted to only 10. Changing the row height (smaller) only adds addition...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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.