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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    Completely deactivate LI REQ support

    Hello, In a multi-tenant environment, where each tenant individually manages their RACF configuration, it would be important to have the ability to completely deactivate LI REQ support via the Hydra (web) Management Interface (MI) or through a RES...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration
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    mmrestorefs into REST API.

    The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

    FlashCopy -- limit to specific volser ranges or categories

    Currently, FlashCopy for DR saves a copy of EVERY tape that has changed. This is excessive, using a lot of cache unnecessarily when DR exercises are being done for a host/client that only uses a small subset of those tapes. And when you have a hos...
    16 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

    Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

    IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Extend IBM Storage Copy Data Management to support Safeguarded Snapshot at the Volume Group level, including groups configured with PBHA+DR, PBHA replication policies

    Hello, IBM Storage Copy Data Management currently supports Safeguarded Snapshot only at the individual volume level. For environments where applications span multiple volumes, this limitation increases operational complexity and risk during recove...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Bulk change volumes

    Before 9.1.0.1 you could hold shift to mark multiple hosts with one click and then change many parameters for all of them at the same time. For example, setting an IOPS or bandwidth limit, adding them to volume groups and so on. This feature is no...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Need ability to toggle interfaces back to undefined from SCSI or FICON

    This would make is easier to determine which interfaces are actually in error for loss of light.
    10 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    have Spectrum Control as an appliance (ova package)

    The uprade process to upgrade Spectrum Control to a newer version is too complex and fails all the time. Please consider deploying it as an appliance. An OVA package provides a pre-configured, optimized environment, reducing setup time from hours ...
    2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

    The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

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