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

Pinned ideas

PINNED FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage
FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
Share feedback 2

All ideas

    Showing 6073 of 6073

    TS77xx Library Manager search virtual volume add smfid or system name where volume was last used

    Currently, when searching the vitual volume via Library Manager or via IP address Management Interface, or when issuing LI REQ,lib-name,LVOL,volser command from z/OS, the information that is received does not include where the last system where th...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    SVC GUI enhancement request

    In the SVC GUI - when viewing hosts:The host mappings column shows a no or yes and disk symbol. Suggested change:Also display the number of volumes that are lunmasked.
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Headline : require RPQ to be raised for new Host , storage (SVC 2145-DH8) combination as same is not present in SSIC

    We want host OS, hba , fabric and storage micro code 8.3.1.5 to be listed in SSIC, currently its not present in SSIC , as a result we are not able to plan upgrade from 8.2.1.11 to 8.3.1.5 .
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus: can only search for databases, not SQL Servers or instances.

    From our DBA:"For SQL backup, how do I search by server or SQL Instance name? Currently, I can only search by a database name. When a SQL Instance has more than one databases, how do I select a SQL Instance and run the backup so that it will backu...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

    we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    Raise number of dependent Filesets

    A customer wants to implement per directory quota. The maximum number of 10000 dependent filesets per file system is a limitation for introducing per directory quota.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Change in DB/View structure for Proxy agent/target and nodegroup/node relations

    Have relational information between nodes/nodegroups - and proxy-agents/targets stored in tables (or presented in views) - instead of comma-seperated lists.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Operation Center - limit resource usage

    Operation Center should have a way to limit the resource that it could use from the servers. By not having, this simple monitoring tool can put the production enviroenment in danger, using far more resources that it should.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 3 Not under consideration

    When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file.

    1. Problem: When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file. For example, consider a pdf file (fileA.pdf) that h...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog

    Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog. Problem Statement: Today Storage Fusion Catalog has regular expression (regex) pattern matching capability to detect PII in unstructured data. Wh...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 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.