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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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Emergency/recovery encryption key generation for External Disk Encryption with TS7700

On DS8K there is an option for creating an emergency/Recovery Key on a USB stick - a final resort in case the GKLM setup is fully damaged. Such 'final backdoor option' is not existing for TS7700. We absolutely need same functionality for the TS7700.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Easier Flashsystem configuration Export/Import

A customer requirement is that if a situation arises where a failed storage device is to be replaced, the original storage controller configuration can be easily and immediately imported as a new storage controller configuration. We would like to...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

CNSA HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Support of 3 active replication relationship in DS8000

To maintain 2 synchronous relationship on 4-copy at 2-site will require support of 3 active relationship to achieve a symmetric model to provide extra resilience in both cases of storage system failure and site failure.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Alternative Archive Destination with Oracle

If, for any reason, the DB or Backup has had a problem und the archive destination is filled for 100% the DB get's in stuck.DB Administrator will choose an alternative archive destination.After Backup works again, it only backup the archive logs f...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

TDP for Database SQL

ISP Server V8.1.11ISP Client V8.1.9TDP for Database SQL 8.1.9 AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for Database SQL with11 Instance (Active/Inactive) containing more than 70 SQL Database using MMC. Problem:When doing selective Restore (Active and Inactiv...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

Improve CSM Monitoring : create "customer" own list of message containing specific pattern to trigger email alert function

Ability to create custom list of " chosen message and filtering "sheduled task completed" only for session starting by pattern a specif pattern Company01 , Company02...,. We are using CSM in very converged / consolidated infra, our CSM handle many...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Needs more information

IBM SV data change rate integrated report

IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration