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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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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...
2 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Property for direct connected servers

Problem Statement: Customers using IBM i systems are one example of environments where direct Fibre Channel (FC) connections are deployed. When such a server reboots, the FC connection is temporarily lost. In a SAN fabric environment, this is a no...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Support and Validate kubevirt-CSI on IBM Fusion HCI with HyperShift Hosted Control Plane Clusters

Please certify the "kubevirt-csi" driver as a supported storage configuration for virtual HyperShift Hosted Control Plane (HCP) clusters running on IBM Fusion HCI. The validation scope should include: Compatibility with IBM Data Foundation (ODF/C...
9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Existing Archive Dashboard decommision

Current Archive Dashboard solution create data lost situation, so it was decide/plan to be decommisionned.What about customer who ever deploy it ?What about replacement solution of this function as this one was shortlist and expected during sale p...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

Fusion Topology/Zone-Aware Zero-touch Backup and Restore for Multi Zone Environments

Requirement In a multi-zone deployment of IBM Concert Operate and IBM Fusion, backup and restore operations should function end-to-end without requiring manual intervention.Currently, successful backup and restore workflows require manual actions:...
3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Feature to create alert policy via CSV import

Some Storage Insights customers manage multiple SI tenants. Currently, custom alert policies exported from one tenant cannot be imported into another tenant. Provide the capability to import custom alert policies into a tenant using a CSV exported...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Provide hardware information withing the initial setup assistant

In some environments you need to know configuration information before you set up a new system, for example WWPNs or MAC addresses of each port. Today this information is not available in the setup wizard, and thus it forces you to pause the wizar...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Re-enable Service Access before finisching system setup with the Initial Setup Assistant.

Current Easy Setup flow prevents direct access to Service Assistant, requiring complex workarounds for code upgrades and hardware verification before cluster creation. However only in Service Assistant you can get information like WWPNs, MAC addre...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review
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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 ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted