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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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add sainfo commands for nodes which are service state to snap script

in couple of scenarios a node is an service customer is usual taking at first a snap 3 which does not contain saout commands from nodes in service and we than need to go back and ask for single snap collection or agreement for using SRA. To get st...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Provide host attachment support for Proxmox VE using NVMe-oF/FC and NVMe/TCP in PBHA environment

Proxmox VE is an emerging hypervisor in the DACH market. Currently, storage attachment for Proxmox VE hosts is only possible via FC/SCSI and iSCSI, whereas NVMe/TCP is already supported for VMware when using PBHA. NVMe-oF/FC and NVMe/TCP deliver s...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Submitted

Enhanced Security and Usability for Trace Files

We would like to propose the following two enhancements for trace files generated by IBM Storage Protect. 1. Option to Exclude File Names from Trace Files The names of files being backed up may contain information from which confidential or privac...
16 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Submitted

Create a Migration-type Session for situations where the target DS8K HMC is not accessible via the network

Issue:I have a repeating need to migrate from one DS8K (source) to another DS8K (target). The source and target DS8Ks are not on the same network and thus the CSM Migration session will not function for the migration of data. There are network sec...
about 2 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

Storage Protect server should decommission a tape volume triggered by TS4500 cartridge status

As of today, there is no connection between TS4500 cartridge health status and Storage Protect server tape volume status. The TS4500 is regularly checking the health of a cartridge, for example media health by running media verification, or, end o...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Storage Protect server decommission volume

We are using Storage Protect Library Manager + Library Client environments. The Storage Protect servers have about 38000 tape cartridges in use.On a regular base, tape cartridges need to be scrapped, because they are end of life or show I/O errors...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

CREATE CERTIFICATE should allow to specify encryption key length

The Storage Protect server creates certificates with 2048 bit encryption key length by default. Nowadays, this 2048 bit key length is too less and recommendation is to use encryption key length of 3000 bit or more. We request that the Storage Prot...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

official hypervisor support Vates / XCP-NG

Dear IBM Support, We are a Belgian CSP who uses IBM Flash System Storage & IBM SVC3. We have different models SVC and Flash Systems with host connection type fibre channel. Flash System FS5200 Flash System FS7300 Flash System FS7600 SVC-V3 SVC...
14 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Submitted

Piezoelectric–Triboelectric Gradient Multilayer Monitors for Environmental Compliance Data

PROBLEM:Compliance monitors built as gradient stacks produce zone-dependent signals that change as each zone loads, ages, or is regenerated, so a flat calibration quickly becomes stale. A compliance record that does not state which zone model and ...
1 minute ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

Piezoelectric–Triboelectric Electrospun Nanofiber Mats for Catalytic Pollutant and CO2 Conversion

PROBLEM:Catalytic nanofiber mats expose active sites on a high-area support, but flow, vibration, and fibre movement generate charge that may alter local surface chemistry in uncontrolled ways. A catalytic mat that is tested only under still condi...
11 minutes ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted