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 5432

Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Keyboard shourtcut in DSMADMC

Implementation of keyboard short-cuts for DSMADMC (SP administrative client console).
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Powershell interface to dsmc and dsmadmc

Powershell is becoming the scripting language of choice for windows. It is difficult to call existing dsmc and dsmadmc command line tools from powershell and reasonably process the output. Powershell has an object pipeline model and file output do...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Activity report and Security Posture Report grouped by Business

Would be good to have customizable reports on Defender to have the ability to build custom reports . The prime use case I see (customer asked for) is to be able to provide a report for a given business application which woud be composed of VMs and...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

document privateSubnetOverride and make it switchable without shutting doen the whole cluster

This helps in adding (additional) high performance networks to existing clusters
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

TS7700 copy/replication time reporting in the BVIR record

To day, it is required that the customer runs VEHAUDIT to get the copy time distribution report; the same report is attached. I have been approached by couple customers who would like to see the copy time statistics is written directly to the BVIR...
about 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Future consideration

GPFS instead of ZFS

Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

lsvdisk command has vdisk_UID as parameter option

Have the ability to isolate an lsvdisk based upon the vdisk_UID without the need to include -filtervalue. As it currently stands in the documentation you can use object_id and object_name to get the specifics of a vdisk, the proposal I am making i...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

lowering the permissions to view access logs

User permission role set to "VIEW LOG" will to give user access to all LOGS.It will not be able to see "FAILED LOGIN". Only SUPERUSER can see this type of entries. That permissions are to height to check logs only, especially in third party script...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add zstd as a compression option

Although the existing compression options are okay sometimes it would be nice to be have more options where speed and decent compression ratios are achievable. Zstd has been gaining traction both in the Linux area and is already on some IBM tape d...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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.