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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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Management interface bond (port-channel)

For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Emergency/recovery encryption key generation for External Disk Encryption with TS7700

On DS8K there is an option for creating an emergency/Recovery Key on a USB stick - a final resort in case the GKLM setup is fully damaged. Such 'final backdoor option' is not existing for TS7700. We absolutely need same functionality for the TS7700.
about 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Lin_Tape support for RHEL 9.4

RHEL 9.4 is the most current OS release for Redhat.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA & OpenShift w/two network adapters

Client has existing big Spectrum Scale infrastructure (not-containerized) with hundreds clients connected from different environments. Spectrum Scale is using dedicated not routed VLAN for daemon-interface network following IBM best practice. Ther...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

SPP Container Backup Support for multiple storage classes

Container backup support at the moment only supports container native storage class, we would like to add more storage classes to be supported with one solution.
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

Introduce support for AD objects & containers

Introduce support for AD objects & containers
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration