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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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Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Make TSM for VE a "HA" solution

During the backup the virtual machine is “freezed” (which seems the normal way the “quiescing” that VM initiates on behalf of the backup application is done). As the customer is running Linux in some VMs and is also running an “HA” solution in two...
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Need to shorten disruptive time when reconfiguring nodes

System : IBM Storwize seriesActor : User needs to improve I/O wait time during Storwize microcode (SVC code) upgrading. When concurrent SVC code upgrading on Storwize storage series, we need to "reconfigure" a node to the cluster after code update...
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Tape open/closes in actlog need process ids.

When a single admin command creates multiple processes, (eg maxpr=2), each of which opens/closes tapes, the session number of the admin is shown in the actlog message, but not the process number. Please add the process number to the open/close act...
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TSM Scripting : Add a "SLEEP" command

Add a unix like "SLEEP" construct that forces TSM interal scripts to wait for a number of seconds before going onto the next command.
over 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Include FlashCopy information in SAN Volume Controller/Storwize system dumps

Storwize and SAN Volume Controller snaps are useful, self-enclosed files used by IBM for diagnostics and support. Additionally, these files can be used for reconstruction and migration by IBM Business Partner, Value-Added Resellers, System Integra...
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

transparent cloud tiering and Global mirror restriction needs to be cleared

I would like to clear the restriction of simultaneous usage of Transparent Cloud Tiering AND global mirror on same source LUN.
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Cache destage statistics

Include Upper Cache Destage Response Times and Lower Cache De-Stage Response times in Storwize statistics. (Nv)
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Requires segregation of duties between general Storage administration and cryptographic functions

On V7000, there are 6 different Roles (Monitor, CopyOperator, Service, Administrator, VASA provider and Security Admin). Unlike any other storage product, in V7000 Security Admin can issue any command, which covers both the storage Administration ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Need to devolep the BA clinent code for SLES12 PPC

Looking or a BA client code for SLES12 PPC on linux.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration