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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    FlashSystem - Firmware upgrade automation by SVC

    Hi,Our customer is running SVC with above 30 FlashSystem today. Each time he needs to upgrade the FlashSystems firmware he needs to do it for each FlashSystem separately which can be quite complicated to follow and specially to do it in given time...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    User credentials(Username/password) visible in plain-text

    As per Bank's IS policy/regulatory guidelines , sensitive information like username/password should to encrypted end to end. However in IBM products, SKLM(IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager) and IBM Spectrum Control., these sensitive info...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

    SNMP Trap when NTP synchronisation failed

    Customer requires that a SNMP trap is issued when the resynchronization with the NTP server can't be completed whatever the reason.Synchronisation of all DS888x is paramount for debugging purposes.
    about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Add missing return codes to dsmrc.h for Tivoli Storage Manager to assist customers in problem determination

    Return codes such as 362 and 363 are not documented for example so PMRs must be opened for proper problem determination. More cost efficient for customers if documented at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSG7_7.1.8/api/r_ret_code...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

    Optional short notification for Spectrum Virtualize produts

    The Spectrum Virtualize family of products produce a length alert email, which is suitable for consumption by support. However, customers may choose to send critical alerts to some form of paging device. These devices may not be able to display th...
    about 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Add ess3200 to general gpfs H36 cluster

    The clustomer already install gpfs on 4 nodes(h36 cluster). The customer want to use ILM to place hot data on high performance storage pool. Deside to add ESS3200 to this cluster.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Not under consideration

    SyncMirror rate value does not make sense.

    During volume copy i was working with the Mirror Sync rate value once again.The value can be set from 1 to 100.Most people would say that would be 1 to 100%.So the value 50 would be 50% of the total available mirror sync rate speed.But that's not ...
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    GPFS: removed files by mmbackup wont reported by tsm

    Although mmbackup is removing files because of incorrect encoding TSM Backup archive client is reporting successful backup.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Allow Spectrum Protect web GUI to support SSL

    After we upgraded SP from version 7.1 to 8.1.3 we lost the possibility to restore NAS filer via web GUI.We need to get back the feature to restore NAS filespaces via web GUI (or if you implement that the thick BA client can do the same operation)....
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Need SVC to automatically creating livedump and SVCsnaps on triggered error.

    Need SVC to be able to create a livedump and an SVC snap when certain errors occur.
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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