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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    More detailed error messages for SP-VE GUI interface

    When the VMware SSL cert is changed, SP-VE does not show any specific errors other than a generic network connection error. More detailed errors would be beneficial to SP customers.
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Support OpenShift EUS (Extended Update Support) for IBM Fusion HCI

    OpenShift EUS provides a stable, long-term support update channel with key advantages: Reduced update frequency (e.g., every 6 months instead of 3) Only one restart of non-control-plane nodes per update Shorter update duration Currently, IBM does ...
    14 days ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    IBM TS4500 Tape Library with FIPS 140-3 Support

    Dear IBM Team, We need your help & support to enable the FIPS 140-3 support with TS4500 + LTO9 + GLKM. Thanks & Regards
    7 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Submitted

    3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

    Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
    20 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Submitted

    mdisk array expansion is too slow

    one of my clients needed to expand pool capacity by expanding the underlying mdisk array after adding new FCM4s. The process is taking too long, months on FS9500. Last expansion they were doing, they added 12x FCM4 and the array is estimating 40 d...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    when using a (pbha-) partitions ip address to access the (pbha-) partition via ssh: make the accessed partition visible. e.g. modify the ssh-prompt and add the partitions name.

    greater customer satisfaction when using ssh to access a partition.
    18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Allowed DRS sources vs remote locations (ROBO)

    We currently have 2 onprem clusters for DP configured within DRS. We have those 2 discovered and scanning/reporting within DRS. We also added multiple Vcenter connections to DRS, which manages our clusters onprem as well as remote sites where ROBO...
    10 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Submitted

    Provide a way to acknowledge backup status of "Without backups" instead of using the Exclude button, which relates more to the Recovery Group feature.

    With DRS scanning our environments, it discovers VMs that are "Without Backups". Some are indeed to look at, but many are VMs that do not require backups. Test machines, lab servers, POC VMs etc. It would be nice to have a way to acknowledge this ...
    10 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    On-prem Storage Insights

    Last week, I met with a PSU BFSI client and presented IBM Storage Insights (SaaS). We requested them to integrate their storage systems with the Storage Insights SaaS offering. We conducted a detailed technical discussion and whiteboarding session...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

    Minimal privileges for an SCVMM Cohesity agent service account

    To deploy the SCVMM Cohesity agent service an account with Administrator privileges is required. During operations the service is run using this account, and it must use the same Administrator privilege level to operate correctly. Using an account...
    3 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

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