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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    support separate storage network for FDF

    support separate storage network for FDF
    3 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.
    6 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Support SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AAG) and Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) in IBM Storage Defender Sentinel

    Our enterprise customers typically run mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server workloads using Always On Availability Groups (AAG) or Failover Cluster Instances (FCI). Since Sentinel does not support scanning these configurations, it is effectively ...
    about 5 hours ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    Direct client restore functionality from Protect Storage pool tapes

    Following benefits:1. Avoids one hop in client restore I.e., no need to run repair stg when container pool is damaged. 2. Eliminates dependency on backend SAN storage when physical hardware occurs. 3. Enhances DR & Cyber resiliency capability.
    about 6 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Replicate Retention set & retention rules metadata to Target Replication server

    1. Benefits all customers.2. Helps in additional option variant as DR for long term archives.3. Creates additional DR & cyber resiliency capability to long term archives when retention sets is created on tapes. 4. Useful for DR drill testing i...
    about 6 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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...
    14 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...
    30 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

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