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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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Snapshot and volume management improvements

A recent sale to a non-IBM customer has shown just how poor our basic management capabilities are within the GUI.We were compared to their 5 year old Nimble array and we did not stand up well. Snapshot scheduling; Simple snapshots that are created...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Add option to restrict email alerts to specific sessions

Please make it so that when configuring "Session State Change" alerts one can select specific sessions. In our shared environment, customers(or teams or applications) have emails configured to receive "Session state change". Currently though, all ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Allow full Box or multiple Subsystem selections in ESE and SGC Sizer sessions

When ESEsizer or SGCsizer sessions are configured, typically they are configured for a large amount of LSS/LCUs if not even for all volumes configured on the system. However, the Copy Set selection wizard does not allow to proceed, when only a sys...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Enhanced VM excludes for TSM for VE

Enhancement to TSM for VE set up to allow an include/exclude file for selective exclusion / inclusion of VMs from backup (similar to BAClient model).
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 6 Delivered

CSM Improve DS8000 Paths Interface

I would like to propose several enhancements to how the CSM DS8000 Paths screen is displayed and managed. 1) The DS8000 Paths screen has a lot of unused space when drilled down into a storage device list of paths, on my monitors at least half of t...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

retenrule with individual filespaces

The new feature retention rule does not allow to define individual filespaces for an BA/aR Client.This parameter is only supported for vm backups.The feature retention rule / retention sets should be an alternative to the backupsets.The backupset ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Re-enable host IO-group selection while adding a new host via the GUI for 8.4.0.x and up

Re-enable selection of IO-group during host creation in SVC code 8.4.x and up
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

TSM for VE needs better VM selection/filtering mechanisms.

When creating a new backup schedule in the TSM for VE plugin in VMware (v 6.4.0.1), the user's options for selecting VM's to be backed up are severely limited. The first limitation is the view by host or datastore. If you want to backup particular...