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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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Increase logical paths limit of 512 for Control Unit

We had this idea opened for z/OS and HCD (https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-4129), but through cases TS017155124 and TS017074516, it was suggested to open an IDEA directed to the DS8Ks. We use shared DASDs to t...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
4 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
about 9 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Integrate RELP support in FlashSystem

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in FlashSystem would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Storage Scale performance is extremely sensitive to network and backend latency, there must be a mechanism to monitor those critical KPI

It would help both system administrator and IBM Support to be able to quickly identify the key issue and be able to isolate the bottleneck to address critical performance issues.
12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Needs more information
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
10 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

Use raid or erasure coding when storing data on tape

As tape media grows in size, the loss on one tape, maybe 40Tb of data, can be a very harmful. Data should be stored on tapes using erasure coding or raid5 technology. Then data can be recovered and the lost tape can be regenerated. This will great...
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Object Lock for CES-S3

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
25 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

FlashGrid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

FlashGrid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other actions...
19 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
26 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted