IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Storage Insights

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Storage Insights. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches in Storage Insights

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Storage Insights as not monitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Storage Insights can monitor. Add an option to supp...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Spectrum Control as unmonitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Spectrum Control can monitor. Add an option to suppre...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Allow a single SPP server instance to backup/restore more than 2 billion files

This RFE is to remove the current limitation of ~2 billion files to be indexed for backup and restore operations on a single SPP server.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

To enable option within SPP for setting multipe bandwidth throttle limits

At the moment, SPP has the option only to set single throttle limit for replication & copy operations, but will it be better to allow the option to have multiple bandwidths throttling limits, during varied time schedules. Example as below: Bus...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

Option to overwrite resources when doing retore

When doing a restore of resources, you have to previously delete the ones you want to restore. This is really complicated for customers and other backup SW allows "overwrite" including a tick on the restore process
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

vdisk default caching IOgrp assignment

Hi, While creating vdisk, Caching IOGRP assignment is automatic in a cluster containing more than 1 IOgrp. e.g. When vdisk is created on pool1 located on IOG1, its caching IOgrp by default should go to IOG1 maintaing local affinity in order to avo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon

Performance monitoring for AIX LPAR node by GPFS GUI with ZImon
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 SGC Monitoring, Reporting and Management with Manual and Auto Control

We are utilizing Safeguarded Copy across all of our Production environments. As the capability grows, so do the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. Regarding changes in capacity needs based on host activity or change in algorithm of...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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