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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    Option to display session and process numbers without commas

    Displaying sessions (q sess) or processes (q pro) without commas will allow an administrator to cut/paste session/process numbers into other commands (can sess xxxxx) quickly and accurately . this will eliminate the need to display and manually in...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support

    FlashCopy Manager for VMware - GPFS Support Customer thinks about integrating GPFS as VMware storage layer. Additionally, FlashCopy Manager for VMware should be used to backup / recover the environemnt. Today, GPFS is only supported for FCM for UN...
    over 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

    Hyper-V support on Windows Nano or Core servers

    Customer has about to move from VMware to Hyper-V for the hypervisor. They are going to install Hyper-V on Windows Nano or Core and they are looking for either of these to become a supported platform for the Data Mover and the Recovery Agent.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Graceful failure of AFM recall timeouts when using AFM-NSD + Support for offline file awareness with AFM (related issues)

    Any client using AFM-NSD Caching with a home storage repository that uses DMAPI aware Hierarchical Storage Management is at risk. AFM-NSD has no ability to gracefully respond when an AFM Cache requst to a recall filesfrom home times out. AFM-NFS u...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    TSM VE 6.4 support double-byte VM host name

    In case of double-byte like Japanese VM host name, VMware off-host backups using vStorage for Data Protection API was stop backup as error. Could you fix this limitation of Single Byte character. Request environment:vSphere 4.1 TSM Server V6.3.3 W...
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE support on Windows 2016

    Our VM team would like to upgrade their environment but are limited to only be able to run the TSM for VE software on a Windows 2016 server.TSM for VE is not currently supported on Windows 2016.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Independent Certificates for Key Servers

    Need to separate the client and server certificates for SafeNets Gemalto Key Servers. Currently, they are on the same certificate.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Need qualification of Ganesha NFS with Spectrum Scale for FileNet customers

    FileNet Content Manager uses NFS to access Spectrum Scale to score document content. Customers can run FileNet Content Manager in a traditional environment or in a containerized environment. In the Containerized environment, Kubernetes provides a ...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Increase number of logical volumes to be used on DS8K beyond 64K

    Problem description: Extend the amount of logical volumes that can be hosted by one physical DS8K machine Current workaround: a.) spend a lot of mandays in order to consolidate multiple logical (!) volumes to less logical (!) volumes. b.) spend qu...
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    TSM IBM

    Customer request to get a TSM BA client supported on FreeBSD OS, and need to take this compatibility in the future releases
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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