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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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Increase REST API max requests per second limit

The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.

Restrict Critical Actions in AOS (Assist On-Site) Even for Root Users

Summary: Implement safeguards in AOS to prevent root users from executing high-risk actions—specifically system shutdowns and core configuration changes—without additional authorization. To perform a shutdown, two independent authorizations must b...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

More focus on stretched Scale for HA with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: A stretched OpenShift cluster (2AZ+Arbiter) over two sites (Fusion HCI/site) where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using fa...
23 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
23 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect for ERP should support HANA 2.0 SP08

We are currently running SP for ERP 8.1.11, which supports SAP HANA 2.0 up to SP7. Our customer (and HANA support) wants to install SAP HANA 2.0 SP8, but we heard this is not supported with SP for ERP SAP HANA 8.1.11. Our SAP colleagues told us, t...
14 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Submitted

Reintroduce the option in the GUI – Modify Mirror Sync Rate

A few days ago, I had a customer complaining about slow mirror synchronization performance.He even went as far as threatening to return two FlashSystem 7300 units because of the perceived sync speed issue.He was only convinced that there was no st...
about 17 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Transparent recall of archived VMware VMs from tape via vMotion should work without failure.

VMware Datastore via NFS is storing data on Scale disk with Storage archive to migrate archived vmdks to tape. The recall process is triggered by a vMotion process but it fails because the files are not recalled yet from tape. If the admin waits a...
about 17 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

CCU Checker enhancement

Enhance the blocking feature of CCU Checker so that it can distinctly handle update errors when there is a risk of severe impact to hosts and volumes. Handle errors with methods that prevent any circumvention without IBM second level approval.
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review