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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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Integrate SGC Hold and Release Commands into 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

The recently delivered SGC Hold and Preserve Backups command and the SGC Release Backup Expiration command are extremely useful for certain clients. In a 4 site environment, the Scheduled Task to automate this process must either me modified upon ...
15 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

ESS Management Switch monitoring feature request

We value the IBM turnkey appliance and support; however, we would like a way to monitor the IBM provided ESS management switches via ESS (GUI and/ore Alerting).
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Submitted

SafeGuarded copy enforced retention

Currently SGC can be removed just from restricted security administrator, protected by 2-Person integrity (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=security-two-person-integrity). To further enhance SGC protection, the proposal is ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
8 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Under review

Reintroduce the option in the GUI – Modify Mirror Sync Rate

A few days ago, I had a customer complaining about slow mirror synchronization performance.He even went as far as threatening to return two FlashSystem 7300 units because of the perceived sync speed issue.He was only convinced that there was no st...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

TS7700 host alert notification when a virtual tape volser stuck during z/OS zVM host failure

A production tape remained stuck in a virtual tape drive, preventing production jobs from reading it. When left unnoticed for an extended period (hours or days), this issue impacted the HSM recycle process, resulting in no tapes being released fro...
about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Interval of "compressionThreshold"

In CVC 375851, DS8k CLI Development had asked to address these 3 requests from the customer via RFE ----------------------------------------------------------------1.) The command of "chextpool -compressionThreshold nn Px" is already included in t...
9 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

Add Filter to the Role Pair Panel

When working on larger CSM configurations with large number of copysets (10,000+), it is difficult to find specific volumes when looking in the Role Pair Details page. It would be very useful to have a Filter box to very quickly find certain volum...
16 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Storage Nickname Column in the Storage Panel for DS8000

For larger clients that have numerous DS8000s (or for any storage systems, I guess), it would be very helpful if CSM users could specify a customizable "nickname" for each DS8000 which would show up as another column in the storage panel. It would...
16 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Support for HPE VM Essentials with FlashSystem (including PBR/HA)

MSP considering HPE VM Essentials as VMware replacement, but need FlashSystem/SVC support
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration