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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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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.

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SVC customizable volume presets

Would be great to have customizable or additional Volume presets in the SVC (and Storwize V7000) GUI:1) "customizable" means the SVC administrator could change /create new presets (according to his needs)2) or we would provide more presets (eg cre...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

svc remote copy initialization enhancment (no zero block replication)

On setting up a new remote copy relationship the volumes have to be synchronized initially. On large volumes (1TB and above) that are replicated over a long distance this can multiple days even if the source volume is thin provisioned and hardly u...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Disk Drives/Hardware Components - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 2 Functionality already exists

Spectrum Protect server activity log to show detailed file restore and tape volume.

Hi Team, As a requirement for auditing we would like to have the server actlog show the file restore in detail and the tape volume it was restored. At the moment we have to restore from the client using restore/pick option and screen shot to...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists