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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    Button/Function in SVC to trigger disc rebalancing via GUI

    Customer is requesting a feature implemented within the SVC like a "button", so that the rebalancing of the disks can be triggered from the GUI.
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

    RFE for Storwize V7000 GUI

    Customer could not use GUI to add 900GB 10K mdisks to an existing hybrid pool that already had SSD mdisks and 15K mdisks.When he created the mdisks using the 900GB 10k drives, it only showed another 900GB mdisk pool as an option to add the new 900...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Increase SVC/Storwize Total FC Ports & FC Host Ports per IO Group LImits

    This request is to enable Walgreens to implement zoning best practices within their PureFlex environment with NPIV and dual-VIOS as documented at: http://rogerluethy.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/powerandsvczoningv2.pdf Each deployed LPAR with NPIV ...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    move nodedata process information

    After the issuing of the command MOVE NODEDATA the user can not know, by issuing the QUERY PROCESS command, which node that is being used.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Decouple TSM database from Storage Control - allow for VM based TSM

    At present, TSM is typically deployed on physical machines due to the requirement to present physical tape resources. I suggest that the database repository be decoupled from the data flow so as to allow the server to be virtualized and provide th...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM Script variable assignment and flow control

    Script flow control and variable use within TSM scripts is rudimentary, at best. Better flow control and the ability to use local variables would help creating useful and portable admin scripts.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Additional Exclude Options made available within opt file

    It is necessary when managing multiple environments and schedules to exclude vm's by any of the following; * datacentre * hostclusters * hosts * vm's * storge
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Option to mount the file system with the root being as a subdirectory

    Control over where GPFS mounts the 'root' (or perhaps fakeroot) of a GPFS file system in order to preserve file paths across different topologies.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    mmfsck -P poolname

    Checking a file system with multiple pools means results in a check of the entire metadata for the file system when each pool is checked.  Not optimal.  Check individual pools instead.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Pool placement based on path

    Ability to place data into a pool based on the directory location of the data.
    about 12 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

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