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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    Allow more than one NTP server in Spectrum Virtualize Products

    Most products that require time synchronization allow more than one NTP server to be specified. Spectrum Virtualize products only allow one server and that only via the IP address. Here, IBM has to make improvements and allow more than one server....
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

    predefined report

    Create a predifined report that can be scheduled to be sent, once a week or once a month, with all the Flashsystems current code level and the recommended code level, plus if they have Advidor alerts, list those too. Very useful for any client, bu...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

    RMAN plugin required

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    More granulary distribution and documentation of roles

    We need a more detailled way to manage the rights and roles in our DS8k environment, as we have received the requirement from our Security department to monitor and restrict roles based on Users etc. Expected GUI enhancements and display of which ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Graphical topology view VM -> datstore -> ESX -> Storage lun -> IBM FS9500 array.

    vCenter, Hosts, and Virtual Machines associated can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu table. If user clicks on a specific virtual machine, then under “Internal/Virtual Machine/ Related resources” panel it gives details about HBA, Driv...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

    When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Protocols - SMB: SLES as CES node on IBM Power Platform

    We need SMB support on ppc64LE / SLES.SLES has a market share of 99% in HANA on Power.HANA will be the only database for SAP.To use SpectrumScale in HANA environments we need SLES Support for smb.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Introduce Data mobility - Ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another

    Introduce Data mobility i.e. the ability to move data from 1 vSnap server to another.This is so data can be easily managed and vSnap servers retired and added in an easier fashion
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux

    SPP support for Bare Metal Recovery (OS Image) for Windows and Linux.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

    as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

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