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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    SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)

    SnapMirror 2 Tape NetApp - Restore Data to a different NetApp (CASE: TS013360935)
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

    If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

    Implement SMTP Authenticated access for Operation Center

    Currently in all Spectrum Protect versions, we can only connect to an open mail relay in order to send email alerts or reports via the operations center. However the new trend today is to have the mail servers located in the cloud and any access t...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

    If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    ESS should be able to notify customers if there is filesystem corruption (currently they can't in their default configuration).

    There is NOTHING worse than undetected filesystem corruption in a storage system. But, as shipped to customers, all ESS storage systems will NOT notify you if there is filesystem corruption. They can _detect_ it, but they can't notify the customer...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    DP for mail support for domino 14.5

    In our environment we're currently upgrading from Domino 12 to Domino 14, and for a number of servers there is a need to go directly to Domino 14.5. This due to several CVE's in earlier version: https://support.hcl-software.com/csm?id=kb_article&a...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Planned for future release

    Performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux

    Support for performance matrix for VIOS/AIX/PowerLinux on SI.
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Support less than 1 day of Oracle archlogs to be kept on system

    ISPP leaves a archive logs on an Oracle system for a certain amount of time, which is needed for recovery, altough Logs are also stored in ISPP on the vSnap share.Unfortunately this amount of time is set in days, so the least time is one day, whic...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives

    The evolution request on the IBM TS4300 tape library is to have the possibility of defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives. This improvement would allow to have an active logical partition which enables cartrid...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 2 Planned for future release

    Add metadata entry to a file to be able to know when it was last recalled

    This would make ik possible to leave a file premigrated for a defined time period.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

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