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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    Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

    Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

    LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

    We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

    Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

    Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Installation of DSCLI with all Java Versions

    Manual "DS8 Command-Line Users Guide":Java Platform (Java 8 or later) must be installed on your system. The installation program checks for this requirement during installation and does not install the DS CLI if you do not have Java Platform, Ente...
    25 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Reintroduce the option in the GUI – Modify Mirror Sync Rate

    A few days ago, I had a customer complaining about slow mirror synchronization performance.He even went as far as threatening to return two FlashSystem 7300 units because of the perceived sync speed issue.He was only convinced that there was no st...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted

    "dsmadmc -tab" should escape tabs in output fields

    The -tab option to dsmadmc is useful for passing output to other applications for parsing. Unfortunately, dsmadmc does not escape tabs in the output, which means that tools that expect tabs to be used only as column separators will incorrectly spl...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Email notifications for jobs

    It should be possible to be notified by email when a job is completed whether it's successful or failing.
    9 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Have CDM support use DB_UNIQUE_NAME identifier for discovery of Oracle data guarded databases instead of DB_NAME (or as an alternative option)

    Any customer using Oracle Data Guard would find this useful. All databases within a dataguard configuration must have the same db_name value, it's an Oracle requirement. In order to distinguish one database from another within the configuration, t...
    9 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

    dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

    When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

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