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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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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...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Trigger an alarm if unstable/unreliable input power is detected.

A stable power environment is crucial for a storage system, and providing this is clearly out of scope of the storage system itself. Nevertheless, it would be a big benefit to provide a warning mechanism if an unreliable power environment is detec...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Please add support for VMware Tanzu

We kindly ask you to  Officially support VMware Tanzu   Provide exclusion capabilities for unsupported resource types like Tanzu namespaces (When you add a vCenter Server instance to IBM Storage Protect the product performs an automat...

DS8A50 Gen10 - Disable the option to over-provision logical volumes above the physical capacity limit or extent pool limit

With the release of the Gen-10 DASD to obtain the full benefit of compression offered by the FCM (Flash Core Modules) the requirement is to use thin-provisioning (ESE / Extent Space Efficient) for all the logical volumes.  This can be a big c...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Submitted

support ssh key Authentication for login to Deep Archive

In the current version of Deep Archive a ssh login is only allowed with username and passwort interactive, there is no way to safe a key in DA to do an automated login to the system. For scripts this is a must have.
13 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Quorum/Tiebreaker architecture flaw

On Multilibrary configuration the default config places 2 quorum nodes in Rack 1 and only 1 in Rack 2 — if Rack 1 goes down, Rack 2 loses quorum and requires manual intervention during DR. No customer-accessible way to fix this (root required).
18 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Full Deep Archive administration via GUI

Current GUI is tech-preview only (no task detail, no performance graphs, no user/bucket creation); everything is CLI-only today
18 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Scale GUI on Deep Archive

Expose the Scale GUI on Deep Archive to support monitoring, administration, and troubleshooting.
18 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

Add a TCP connectivity test tool to IBM TS7700 VTS

We request the addition of a generic TCP connectivity test function to the IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape System management interface.  The TS7700 VTS may need to communicate with external network services, including remote Syslog or rsyslog servers...
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

Add a TCP connectivity test tool to IBM DS8000

We request the addition of a TCP connectivity test function to the IBM DS8000 management interface.  DS8000 administrators currently need to configure connections to several external services, including LDAP servers, encryption key servers an...
2 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted