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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    Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

    I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    iSCSI Performance Optimization for OLVM Platform & LAB SETUP

    create a OLVM LAB setup and test the following host parameters for achieving improvement in host side disk performance to IBM MTU: 9000 (jumbo frames) iSCSI Paths: 8 ( already clarified on the IBM call. can be achieved only using additional cards....
    25 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    fixcentral communications - 8.7.0.10

    Hi Support, Please could you Post in RED/BOLD informing customers to not install, previous downloaded images. With the recent release of v8.7.0.10 and withdrawal from download site. we have flashsystem 5200 and flashsystem 5300. I downloaded v8.7....
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

    logical volume retrieve in cache - tool

    as IBM lab service unit, we would assist the customer to takeover some tasks the client has to execute by his own side when HW refresh is performed on new ts7700, or when a backup infrastructure change is in place. We need to be able to recall by ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

    Reset of "lsportstats -node port" error counters on IBM SVC.

    We would be very pleased and grateful if you could implement the following requirement.For troubleshooting and error analysis purposes, it would be very helpful if the error counters could be reset to 0 to see if various counters (CRCs, link reset...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    per-file-system backgrondSpaceReclaimThreshold configuration parameters

    As commented in https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/GPFS-I-1306, the backgroundSpaceReclaim logic included in the recent Spectrum Scale version enables to trigger trim / unmap operations to NVME backend NSD disks while files / blocks are removed / freed o...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Detailed overview in Fusion UI to display all resources actually captured by the backup or recipe

    Suggestion for improvement:In order to support the targeted development of recipes that work correctly, a function for quick and complete content analysis of the individual created backups (and possibly also the restores) should be included in the...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Delivered
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    Automatical clean up of Zeros in traditional pools and related volumes after SCSI unmap

    Merged
    The request is: clean up in an automated process all Zero's, which are written into SVC parent/child pools at traditional (non DRP) Managed Disk Groups and the included volumes after SCSI Unmap operations are executed. If the related volumes are m...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Allow Lun masking for the control path

    With the TS4500 and other tape libraries, the Library Control path (SMC Device) is presented via Lun 1 over one or more drives, while access to the drive (RMT Device) itself is provided using Lun 0. In a larger tape environment, there is usually a...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Implement password policy for CSM Users in the Basic User Registry

    There is obviously no password policy for CSM Userids in the basic user registry, when using CSM on HMC. This is a security breach, because the CSM users are not prompted to use a complex password. But in most cases, they do it voluntary to ensure...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Delivered

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