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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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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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add IP port utilization to Storage Insights

Currently we can only monitor FC port utilization using SI so we're completely blind when it comes to ISCSI port utilization and need to contact our network team to monitor usage which delays incident resolution. It would be great to be able to mo...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Use Redirect-on-Write for DRP Fully Allocated volumes

For FlashCopy (FC) to use Redirect-on-Write (RoW) instead of Copy-on-Write (CoW) in a Data Reduction Pool (DRP), current implementation requires both the source and the target volumes to be compressed + deduplicated, as the dedup reference countin...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Customize visible Name for the Device in Browser-TAB

The customization of the visible Device-Name in the Browser-Header or Browser-Tab will be helpfull, if you have to manage multiple Devices. If you have to manage you will be able to identify the different Devices when you are able, to set the Devi...
7 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 0 Future consideration

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Storage Insights

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Storage Insights. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches in Storage Insights

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Storage Insights as not monitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Storage Insights can monitor. Add an option to supp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Option to suppress unmonitored switches

Switches attached to other monitored switches are displayed in Spectrum Control as unmonitored unless the credentials match the switch that was added. The switch must also be a switch type that Spectrum Control can monitor. Add an option to suppre...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration