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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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HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Add a host to multiple host clusters

It would be nice it I could add a host to multiple different host clusters. You can currently map a volume to multiple host clusters and it works. The reason for this request is to reduce the risk of human errors. Lets say that we have 3 different...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

DS8A00 DSCLI: allow -compressionThreshold values of 14% and below (Alerting required for usage values of 86% and above)

Why is this useful? Alerting for more critical usage values (usage above 85%) is important to be informed about high usage situation Who would benefit from it? every user of DS8A00 with FCM4. How should it work? Allow any percentage value for - co...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Please bring back show hosts by host ports in the hosts menu

Because its a pain having to view host properties then selecting the port definitions tab every time
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Merge Partitions with different topology

Request on customer feedback is the ability to perform a merge between two partitions running not in the same topology (or using identical settings). The inability to perform a merge of partitions with different topology (HA vs non-HA), impacting ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Error message to provide specific detail of problem

When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

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

Allow Rescheduling of Snapshot Policy on Volume Group

Sometimes we need to change when a snapshot policy is scheduled for a given volume group. Currently you have to unassing the old policy, and reassign it giving a new time.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

API Enhancement for GET /v1/pools

The API queries for GET /v1/pools GET /v1/pools/{pool_id} We need to be able to see encryption status of the pool through the API query. it's very helpful if the queries were modified after the DSCLI command lsextpool -l.
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Create PBR relationship from Replication ports - and not from Management Port 1only.

We are replacing Netapp Storage at customer which has 2 sites. They are doing replication between the 2 sites on dedicated layer2 network. We have FS5300, with 2 ports dedicated to replication , why the PBR must be configure from the primary manag...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review