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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    DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

    Request for Spectrum Protect Plus to backup and restore DB2 databases running under zLinux
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

    Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Is a defect

    Migrate/Tier older data from containerpool to tape

    Hello, we use large file pools for our backups, these pools store a number of days of backups, then older/cold data get migrated to tape.Currently we have some severe pains with the file pools when migration is done to a collocated storagepool, se...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Functionality already exists

    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Support RHEL as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server

    Now, it is only supported SLES 15.4 as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server. But, my client and many customers in the world are using RHEL(x86_64) as OS for IA-Linux environment. Providing additional SLES, not RHEL is an unacceptable requirement fo...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2

    Need ability to toggle interfaces back to undefined from SCSI or FICON

    This would make is easier to determine which interfaces are actually in error for loss of light.
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

    It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    Network option for Ceph Ready Nodes

    Our customers have asked us to upgrade their network performance and availability for Ceph Ready Nodes. Therefore, we would like you to add networking options as well as disk drives. - Number of NIC ports. Currently, with only two ports(10GbE), cu...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

    Allow Storage Insights to recieve and pass on notifications from other tools such as CSM

    The idea is to make SI the single pain of glass for the entire storage environment. An example would be for it to log notification from CSM when replicated volumes go out of sync. This would reduce the number of IBM tools the customer has to setup...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

    The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

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