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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 5494

Tape replace to skip bad file

RPQ: 672-92701 When Tape state is changed to need_replace and require_replace, customer was told to migrate their data from bad tape to a new tape cartridge. While if there is a damaged file in the replace tape, ”eeadm tape replace” will stop at t...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Planned for future release

Support migrate and recall REST API in storage archive

RPQ: 672-92700 As we know, in hyperscale tape storage system tape archive node works with customer distributed storage system. The current interface between tape archive and customer distributed storage system is command, it is limited in local OS...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Performance improvements for LTO9 unload

RPQ: 672-95268 Both Tencent and Baidu have requested performance improvements for LTO9 unload. Since LTO9 performs low-tension unload this can be slower than LTO8. However, there is an LTO9 option with the RAO command that will optimize the LTO9 u...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Planned for future release

Request for SMTP Settings Feature in TS2900 Tape Library

Dear IBM Product Management Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to request an enhancement for the TS2900 Tape Library related to its SMTP configuration capabilities. Currently, the SMTP settings on the TS2900 do not support...
3 months ago in IBM TS2900 Tape Library 0 Under review

Predicting/built-in intelligence

Today there are many repeatable task and manual human interaction to administer Spectrum Protect/Spectrum Protect Plus software. Examples: adjusting space reclamation, validate database backups, copy storage pool, protect storage pool processes, r...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Service-Now integration to Storage Insights

For certain alerts, I don't want it to sent an email. I want it to open a ticket. I want to be able to configure various Service Now fields to allow the severity and group to be assign, along with other fields An example: caller: Storage Insights ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3

Change mail-function for OC and reports, email support for user/password

Open relay mailserver is not a common way anymore inside organisations to handle mail. I need support (new feature / way to handle mail) for operation center for reports which supports user/password and connections to non open relay mailservers al...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus support MariaDB

Important pubic sector in Spain (Andalucia sub-region) has decided to use "Maria DB" as new Data Base (replacing Oracle).Some customers in that public sector loves SPP for future Containers, VMs and Aplication Data Protection but they really need ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Prioritise selection of zOS Host Connections in Copy Services Manager

Have the ability to be able to prioritise/order which zOS system(s) in the zOS Host Connection panel in Copy Services Manager (CSM) is selected. There is the possibility that some zOS systems added as zOS Host Connections may not have equal CPU ca...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

Intergrated Message Console

Being able to see message that emulate the z/OS console. The features is available on the z/Enterprise HMCs, and the DS8K.
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Needs more information

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.