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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    HPO to support AFM managed data along with data transfer to AWS S3

    In order to provide high-performance hybrid-cloud object storage for Analytics & AI, within HPO, it is required to process S3 object data via AFM to on-prem AND on AWS S3. To place/move objects intelligently on/to AWS S3, HPO AFM needs to supp...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

    In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

    Policy Based Replication Allow rename of Volume group with replication policy assigned

    For our larger customers where we are (currently) replicating with GM/GMCV consistency group names are chosen alongside with the customer as they would like to easily identify by CG name to which application the volumes in the consistency group be...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base (& SVC)

    A Customer with a very large SVC installation wants to have vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base for his SVC environment: Handling & administration without many components
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

    Support a 64K vdisks

    I would like to suggest to expansion of the quantity of supported vdisks to 64.000 logical address. More than one customer here (@ Brazil) bring this kind of specification in their RFPs and/or Public auctions, what reflect in a lot of work to unde...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    mmbackup dry-run mode

    The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

    Ability to rename a partition.

    Once a Partition exists, it is not possible to change the name, while the partition name is based on hardware, applications, hosts (or combination).This can change over time and then it is more than desirable to be able to change this. Also renami...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Change process for dual control function

    the dual control function raise the security for important functios in TS77xx. To use this function you need 2 groups(or persons) for 'Maker' and 2 groups(or persons) for 'Checker'. The result of this workflow(design) is, that you need 4 Groups to...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

    Multi-cluster Hyperswap for Spectrum Virtualize

    Current Hyperswap implementation exists within a single Spectrum Virtualize cluster. An outage of the entire cluster is possible, thereby offering a lesser degree of availability
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

    Preventive alert for cluster key certificate expiration

    According to the recent flash " IBM Storage Scale: An expired cluster key prevents nodes from connecting to the Storage Scale cluster resulting in admin commands failing to update the cluster configuration.https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/71...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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