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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    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...
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Submitted

    Allow Local Break-Glass and IBM Service Accounts to Coexist with LDAP Authentication on DS8000 HMC

    Enhance DS8000 HMC LDAP authentication to allow customers to selectively retain designated local accounts when LDAP authentication is enabled. Currently, we can successfully configure and use LDAP for remote user authentication. However, we also r...
    3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Enable LLDP on IBM FlashSystem Ethernet ports to advertise port details to connected network switches

    Please add support for Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) on IBM FlashSystem Ethernet interfaces so connected network switches can automatically discover and identify storage ports. Requested functionality Advertise system name, system descripti...
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    support separate storage network for FDF

    support separate storage network for FDF
    19 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Cluster upgrade returns alerts against nodes indicating communication failures

    When upgrading Defender Data Protect, the application can return alerts indicating communication failures with disks/systems: MarkDiskForRemovalMetadataServerUnreachable These alerts occur during the upgrade process and impact the node health/stat...
    2 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Allow user to specify output of node name/ID format globally instead of in each command

    RequestSupport a variable in the cluster configuration via mmchconfig that allows a user to specify if node name output in any command should be done via1. Explicit shortname even if it includes duplicates2. Shortest unique name possible3. FQDN4. ...
    2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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...
    18 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...
    18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted
    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 ...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 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...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

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