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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    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.
    2 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    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...
    3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    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...
    10 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 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...
    7 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Under review

    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...
    13 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
    26 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration
    118 VOTE

    Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

    With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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...
    4 days 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...
    4 days 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...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

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