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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    Safeguarded Copy function for latest FlashSystem 5000 products.

    With the introduction of Safeguarded Copy Function, it was decided that a FlashSystem 5100 or greater is required to support this new functionality. Since many Flashsystem were sold to Small and Medium businesses or institutions, we are wondering ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

    mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

    The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

    Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    Add duplicate volser tolerance to copy export merge and cluster/grid merge process

    I attached a präsentation about this requirement
    almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    CES support on SLES 12 SP3 Little Endian

    Recompile the CES packages to support SLES 12 SP3 on Power 8 and newer processors. There is already support in place for RHEL, but some customers are using SLES as their primary OS primarily due to SAP Hana installations and there is no support fo...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Ubuntu 22.04

    We have a customer who wishes to use Ubuntu Server version 22.04 with Storage Protect and FC attached TS4300 with LTO9 drives. Whilst the interop for SP suggests that this code level is supported, the SSIC for the TS4300 shows the latest support w...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

    More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    "Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

    Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

    It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

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