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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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support separate storage network for FDF

support separate storage network for FDF
2 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Make IP:Port binding possible

In a split client and administrative network, Storage Protect server listens on all interfaces and IP addresses. Ideally, TCPPort would listen on the client network and TCPAdminPort only the administrative network, using IP:Port binding or NIC:Por...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Make propagating replication server details to clients (dsm.sys) optional

We want our replication servers to remain hidden, in case of a failover restore from a replication server we can easily add these details ourselves. Currently, in case a host is compromised, a hacker can easily see that replication servers are als...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Ransomware Testing Method

IBM Banking client has several DS8A50 machines that have Flash Core Modules installed. Now with the release of 10.2 code they want to test the ransomware alerting end to end and would like a method on the DS8K that they could use to simulate corru...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

IBM Storage DRS Sensor for Storage Scale / GPFS filesystems

We have a lot of customers with IBM Storage Scale / GPFS where we can offer and sell DRS, but we need the missing support for the filesystem agent for GPFS.

Support Node-Targeted DataMover Scheduling for Backup & Restore on OpenShift / Kubernetes

Currently, DataProtect requires DataMover services to be running across all worker nodes in an OpenShift cluster. If a customer scopes DataMover pods to a subset of worker nodes using nodeSelector or tolerations in the DaemonSet specification, mul...
13 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Support ACME Protocol for Automated Certificate Management on FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize (TPI Enabled)

Currently, when Two-Person Integrity (TPI) is enabled on IBM FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize systems, the automated rotation of security certificates via Ansible or other automation tools is restricted or blocked due to the mandatory dual-autho...
29 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Request native LUKS2/dm-cryptv encryption for persistent volumes in the IBM Block CSI Driver, along with guidance on SAN data-in-transit encryption, to help meet SecNumCloud requirements.

Add native support for encrypting persistent volumes at the worker-node level using LUKS2/dm-crypt, directly integrated into the IBM Block CSI Driver.This feature is required for OpenShift platforms targeting SecNumCloud compliance, where encrypti...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Property for direct connected servers

Problem Statement: Customers using IBM i systems are one example of environments where direct Fibre Channel (FC) connections are deployed. When such a server reboots, the FC connection is temporarily lost. In a SAN fabric environment, this is a no...
16 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Backup TS4300 via REST/CLI

Hi, at the moment it is only possible to backup the TS4300 via GUI. For this you have to navigate to: Settings - Library - Advanced - Save Configuration File Via REST you don't have such an option. Everything else what is needed is there, but no b...
10 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Under review