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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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Fusion HCI Management Server

The Fusion HCI Rack should have a dedicated 1U Management server. This would be a low cost Linux server, single socket. The server would have the provision code as well as remote support tools. This could include remote access for IBM support, sim...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

ARM Support in Spectrum Scale

The Jülich Supercompting Centre is running HPC compute resources for the European Science community. The storage solution is based of a central Spectrum Scale storage cluster which is mounted on ~8.000 compute nodes using GPFS remote cluster mount...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

IBM Storwize/SVC QOS function to prioritize workload

The Storwize / Spectrum Virtualize QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager for different tenants (e.g Pepsi and Coca Cola) on one system.This priority Manager must be integrated in...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Ability to set Custom Retention Policies for Events and/or requirement for them to be "fixed" before removing them from the Dashboard

Per design, current Fusion versions includes the following events expiration policies: Information events lasts for 3 to 4 hoursWarning events lasts for seven daysCritical events lasts for 14 days These values are fixed and do not require the admi...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Better performance/parallelism on generate dedupstats

It will be usefull to be able to use "generate dedupstats" to generate daily usage information for nodes/nodegroups on a multitenant setup.Unfortunately, the performance of the current "generate dedupstats" makes it impossible for us to generate t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Applications with VMs instead of hosts.

Most customers use same VMware ESX hosts for multiple VM's and grouping by host (applications) doesn't help to analyze/monitor specific VM's.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Functionality already exists

Create Reports for Data which is send to Object Storage for single Clients / Servers

Hello actually we need to create Reports for Data which is sent from SPP to TSM Object Storage within additional copies and archives. I can not find a report type in SPP which supports the report for data amounts for additional copies / archives. ...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Possibility for monthly and annual Archiving to TSM Tape

When configuring additional copies with offload on TSM, you can only use container pools for storage, but container pools cannot be migrated to tape. Since we only use all-flash SAN storage, this is a very costly solution. For our customer, we nee...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration