Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Pinned ideas

PINNED FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage
FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.

All ideas

V7000 Threshold Based SNMP

Threshold based capacity and performance SNMP alerts should be configurable
over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Configurable SNMP Alerts

Repeat SNMP alerts for errors not fixed within a given window should be configurable
over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE linux guest file level restore (without using windows for mounting)

We would like to restore files (file level) for Linux virtual machine whout using windows server for iSCSI mounting. Since we do not have any windows servers/guests in our environment.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environment support availability for vSphere 6.7

When wil be available support for vsèphere vcenter 6.7 ? vCenter plugin is not working on version 6.7
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add tdp client for MSSQL on linux

TDP for MSSQL needed on Linux systems
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environment and Vmware Site Recovery Manager Place holder VM's

TSM for virtual Environment is unable to recognize Vmware Site Recovery Manager ‘s Place holder VM's. TSM For VIrtual Envionrment is unable to recognizANS9365E VMware vStorage API error for virtual machine ''. TSM function name : __ns2__CreateSnap...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Oracle Linux OS support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle

Client asks about official support for TSM Data Protection for Oracle, installed on Oracle Linux x64
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

GPFS Support in Linux for DataStage binaries

Too many processes/threads executing mmap() functions accessing executable library functions which results in an increase in GPFS lock contention
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Migrate data from one cloud storage pool to another cloud storage pool

We need feature to migrate data from one cloud container storage pool to another cloud container storage pool using "move nodedata" as it's currently only support sequencial storage pool but won't support container storage pools
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

Mirrored Mdisk Group

Ability to create mirrored MDisk Groups
over 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration