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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    Add the ability to set the flashcopy rsize value within backup job definition.

    Provide the ability to configure the FlashCopy rsize value as an advanced option setting for backup jobs using IBM FlashSystem storage.
    about 15 hours ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Add the ability to set the FlashCopy Mapping Grain Size within backup job definition.

    Provide the ability to configure the FlashCopy rsize value as an advanced option setting for backup jobs using IBM FlashSystem storage.
    about 15 hours ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    HCI Fusion: Change IP and/or Hostname after first installation

    Esercito Italiano and Aeronautica Militare, two enterprise customer in Italy are asking to possibility to modify nodes IP and Ingress IP after first installation.
    1 day ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    support separate storage network for FDF

    support separate storage network for FDF
    7 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...
    6 days 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...
    6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Replicate Retention Set and Retention Rule metadata to the target Storage Protect server during replication.

    Currently, IBM Storage Protect replication transfers backup data to the target server, but Retention Set and Retention Rule information is not replicated. In a disaster recovery scenario where the source server is unavailable, administrators may n...
    4 days 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...
    11 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for IBM VTS and TSSC

    IBM should provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for its products as a standard product deliverable, preferably based on the CycloneDX CBOM specification. Customers increasingly require transparency into the cryptographi...
    about 2 hours ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

    Provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for IBM Flash Storage Systems

    IBM should provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for its products as a standard product deliverable, preferably based on the CycloneDX CBOM specification. Customers increasingly require transparency into the cryptographi...
    about 2 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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