IBM Power Ideas Portal
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. 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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.
ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
There is a tradeoff between being aggressive initializing the disk and not impacting other workloads on the same Storage box. I ran a test were I initialized 50 TB in less than 1 hr. To me this seems reasonable. Can you give the results of the time you were seeing?
IBM Power Systems Development
The CAAC has reviewed this IBM Idea and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority Idea that is important to be addressed.
Initializing disks of any type more quickly, helps in recoveries or system restores of all types. It would also be ideal if this option would be multi-threaded.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your Idea.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
Carmelita Ruvalcaba - CAAC Program Manager
he CEAC has reviewed this IBM Idea and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority Idea that is important to be addressed. Thea feel that disk formatting needs a general look over, for example in the area of parallel work on multiple LUNs.
Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your Idea.
For more information about CEAC, see https://comeur.org/what-is-ceac/
Sara Andres Caballero + Sabine Jordan - CEAC Program Managers