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

    Enable selective VMDK based restore for "Production Restore (Disk Replace)"

    Starting with version 10.1.7 it is possible to restore only the VMDK's of a VM without restoring the configuration data of the VM.This restore mode is named "Production Restore (Disk Replace)". This restore mode does a restore of all VMDK's of a V...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

    Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Easier hotfix awareness

    At the moment, to be notified about a hotfix for IBM Storage Fusion, you either need to subscribe to the correct fusion notification subscription (there's at least 10 options) or have an issue a log a ticket to IBM support. Can a feature be built ...
    8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Flashsystem Volume Group metric replicated blocks should be displayed in MiB/s

    The replicated blocks metric under Flashsystem volume groups represents the data rate the data is being replicated to the remote system. All other metrics in SI represent data rate as MiB/s and this should be the same for volume groups.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Add duplicate volser tolerance to copy export merge and cluster/grid merge process

    I attached a präsentation about this requirement
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Callhome for Node Reboot

    IBM node panic Rebooted on 09/17, but no callhome generated to IBM(TS017220322) In event of Node reboots due to any bug may go unnoticed if the node comes up within 30 mins. Fidelity would like to generate a callhome to IBM and a case should open ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

    For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Enhancements to the Operations Center reporting

    The company is building executive reports using Spectrum Protect Operations Center. They have over 6000 nodes doing backups in 19 Spectrum Protect servers and management would like to have a view of some statistics for the whole environment. Today...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

    CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

    Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Missing informational event for rear door open status

    While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 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.