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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    Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

    When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Detailed overview in Fusion UI to display all resources actually captured by the backup or recipe

    Suggestion for improvement:In order to support the targeted development of recipes that work correctly, a function for quick and complete content analysis of the individual created backups (and possibly also the restores) should be included in the...
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Planned for future release

    Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

    Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Provide customer access to send ping commands down TCT interface links to test network connections without needing IBM to AOS into machine.

    Customers currently have no access to test network connections for TCT ports on the DS8K. Providing an interface to send ping and traceroute commands out the TCT ports to test networking will save loads of time interfacing with support to perform ...
    12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Support for Ubuntu 22.04

    As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

    The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

    For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    DS8k - WWPN/WWNN for Fibre channel Ports

    According to the PLOGI (Port Login) and PRLI (Process Login) are used to establish connections between devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network).That means source and target WWNPN/WWNN are known. However, the details for the logged in links is only ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

    Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

    While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Password expire message on GUI

    Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Planned for future release

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