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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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Improvement of Automatical Certificate Distribution

It is possible to distribute a new certificate with help of cert_distribute.sh script.This script has 3 "actions" distribute, report and cleanup."distribute" make automatical distribution of new ceritificate in the form of 4 schedules for each dom...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

RPO Error Alerts on Cascaded GM leg for 4 Site Replication Enhanced Session

Currently, the RPO threshold alerts are suppressed by CSM on the Cascaded GM leg. We would like the Error level to be externalized even when the GM leg is a cascaded leg. In the case where this leg is being used for SGC, the CSM backups will not b...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Upgrades should create svcconfig backups and copy them to each node

Currently, we run the following prior to upgrades, incase there is an issue: svcconfig backupCFG_ENCL=`lsnodecanister -delim : -nohdr -filtervalue config_node=yes | cut -d: -f14`for ENCL in `lsnodecanister -nohdr -delim : -filtervalue config_node=...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Show the real used capacity on vdisk in GUI

GUI shows the two values “real capacity” and “used capacity” in addition to the capacity with which a disk was created.For a thin-provisioned vdisk this two values are useless, if the capacity is shrinking (unmap from esx). For example an actual e...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Ability to rename a partition.

Once a Partition exists, it is not possible to change the name, while the partition name is based on hardware, applications, hosts (or combination).This can change over time and then it is more than desirable to be able to change this. Also renami...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FS5200 support GKLM 5.0

Customer have implement latest GKLM version V5.X to encrypt FS5200.When trying to connect Disk equipement to GKLM , FS5200 complaint about not supported ekm server.Raising ticket TS019138372 , we got feedback this page stating the supported list h...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

add a NTP server for the rsyslog time of TSSC to be synced with external NTP

When I logged in to TSSC on one of our devices I noticed that the syslog had printed that I had logged in 19 minutes before I actually had... After raising this with IBM they told me the following: The 3957 TSSC that we use to log in and out of th...
7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Delivered

Clean cache with migration when one copy is online

Customer store their data into two libraries, when one library is offline or failure, they can't clean storage scale cache with archive migration and have to wait for IBM repairing. While customer only have a little cache storage space, they have ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Delivered

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.

Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered