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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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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.

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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...
about 19 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Provide the Expedited/Standard/Bulk S3 Retrieval option

Deep Archive should provide an expedited retrieval option equivalent to the expedited retrieval semantics available in Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. For applications requiring occasional urgent access to archived content, users should be a...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

S3 Object Lock / Immutable Retention

Deep Archive should support Amazon S3 Object Lock semantics, including Governance Mode and Compliance Mode, with configurable object retention periods and legal holds. This is particularly relevant for enterprise archive, regulatory retention, ran...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

Parallel and Multi-Library Recall Scheduling

For large restore operations, Deep Archive should provide more explicit control and visibility over recall scheduling. For example, when retrieving 256 files of 100 MiB each, the documentation describes a recall workload involving multiple tapes a...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Expose object MD5 via S3 API and add standard x-amz-checksum-* support (SHA-256, SHA-1, CRC32/CRC32C)

Current situation IBM Storage Deep Archive computes and stores an MD5 for each object at ingest. It recomputes it and compares it with the stored value when the object is restored from tape. This value cannot be read through the S3 API, and it is ...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Reference architecture for resilient S3 access and failover across multiple IBM Storage Deep Archive systems

IBM Storage Deep Archive can be deployed with multiple interconnected tape libraries/systems that synchronize data between sites. In such an architecture, an S3 client may potentially connect to more than one system, providing opportunities for ge...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

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Expose IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) filesystem on IBM Storage Deep Archive
2 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 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...
5 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Under review

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...
8 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 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...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted