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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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Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Avoid to damage good tape media by bad drive

In Baidu hyper scale tape storage system, we met many cases that good tape cartridges is marked to bad status because of bad drive. For example, drive1 is bad, Archive EE still uses it to write or read data and get the error result, Archive EE wil...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Request for SMTP Settings Feature in TS2900 Tape Library

Dear IBM Product Management Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request an enhancement for the TS2900 Tape Library related to its SMTP configuration capabilities. Currently, the SMTP settings on the TS2900 do not support...
22 days ago in IBM TS2900 Tape Library 0 Submitted

Intergrated Message Console

Being able to see message that emulate the z/OS console. The features is available on the z/Enterprise HMCs, and the DS8K.
23 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

TS7700 Multiple NTP Server Addresses for Redundancy

This would be a robust configuration if the TS7700 MI can allow multiple entries for NTP time servers (just like the DS8950 MI), and/or allow LTM/GTM IP addresses and have one IP address that goes on a round robin of available NTP servers in the p...
24 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Provide GUI option to list TS7700 virtual tape components with serial numbers

Hello, Recently we run into issue while tried MES upgrade an existing TS7700 virtual tape system. The IBM inventory services were not capable to list all components of the VTS, and for manually could add them to the configuration we would have to ...
28 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Define object limits per user

Hi In case we are creating partitions on the Storage, and now for example OCP env using CSI driver , customer is now define user and script to create volumes/snapshots.If there is human error - the script can run in a loop - cause the system to re...
30 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Allow for the concurrent creation/existence of several recovery sets from a given set of SGC captures

Our use case: a daily backup to tape of SGC restores for our 4 production environments. The largest one takes 10 hours to background copy before we can create another restore which is longer than the time to backup to tape without the background c...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Applications with VMs instead of hosts.

Most customers use same VMware ESX hosts for multiple VM's and grouping by host (applications) doesn't help to analyze/monitor specific VM's.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted