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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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Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

ESEsizer - Enhance error handling conditions around communication timeouts caused by network drops

It would seem that the ESEsizer tool requires network connectivity for a long duration when collecting stats from the DS8900. Unfortunately, when there are network dropouts - the whole ESEsizer session is ruined, and you need to start again - whic...
2 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Expediting file system recovery for very large environments

Enterprise Scale environments are typically comprised of a large quantity of i-nodes and/or file counts for footprints of a few hundred PB in a single filesystem. When an unexpected event occurs, such as fs log corruption, running mmfsck to recove...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

Support for Windows Containers hosted by Openshift Virtualization VM running in Fusion HCI

Windows containers today are supported by Windows Machine Config Operator on AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix and vSphere. Working with clients looking for Fusion HCI as the Openshift platform, this Idea requests Fusion HCI to support running Windows Cont...
3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Expedited inode scan / faster disk replacement for descOnly disks with filesystem that have large inode counts

For Scale filesystems with very large inode counts, requesting an improvement to reduce/consolidate the inode scan requirements when replacing the descOnly disks (128M).
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

allow a time offset in the passticket generation

Necessary if CSM is managing across time zones
about 1 hour ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE

Request for a tape drive down function in the Storage Archive EE to prevent malfunction at the tape drive level when a drive failure is detected.
about 15 hours ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted