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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    Ability to restore an Oracle DB to a single host in a RAC cluster

    Basically, we need to be able to select one member of a cluster as a restore destination.
    7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

    "Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

    Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

    With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

    Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    z/OS HyperSwap and Concurrent Copy

    After a HyperSwap, the command "Start H2->H1" (Start H1->H2 respectively) will fail if there a active Concurrent Copy Sessions on secondaries (former primaries). CSM will show error IWNR2108E RC 0F13. We know IBM recommends to eliminate any ...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

    The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Automating the management of certificates on devices

    The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

    The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

    Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

    Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

    Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
    almost 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 3 Under review

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