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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    IBM Spectrum Control - Alerts - Ability to Schedule Non-triggering Time Windows

    Customers have backup windows during which a lot of alerts are triggered. Too many alerts causes customers to ignore all the alerts altogether even those that are triggerred during normal business hours. It would be great if we had the capability ...
    about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

    Scale CSI & CNSA should be package with base scale distribution

    IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver and IBM Storage Scale Container Native are add-on interfaces that are included in the base licensing for IBM Storage Scale. They are currently only available via external repositories that requi...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Shortening Log Collection time and reduce Log size to speed up service and support for more efficiency

    TS4500 Log Collection is running more then 40 minutes and the Log size is greater than 750 MB. To speed up service and support time, we have to reduca tho log colletion duration and also the size of the log files. The idea ist to speed up and shor...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

    It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Every Half year require to recommanded the LTS version reports

    Currently, we have multiple FlashSystem storage models, including the FS5K, FS7K, and FS9K series. Recently, IBM has been frequently announcing new versions of the IBM Spectrum Virtualization firmware. While we plan to perform the firmware upgrade...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Please notify the IBM storage End of Availability (EOA) and End of Support (EOS) service dates through the Storage Insight Manager.

    Currently, we are managing multiple IBM storage systems of different models located at various sites. These devices were purchased from different business partners. Often, we are unaware of the exact EOA (End of Availability) and EOS (End of Suppo...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

    Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

    Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    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

    Being able to define an IP white listing to access the Defender Services DMS and DRS

    DMS and DRS are SaaS based services which are widely accessible from the Internet. Although there are strong authentication, MFA and other security mechanism controlling the access, some clients are requesting the possibility to restrict access to...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

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