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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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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...
about 8 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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...
4 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

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...
14 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Support for Microsoft Entra ID Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Many enterprise customers have standardized on Microsoft Entra ID as their central identity provider and MFA solution. Support for Microsoft Entra ID MFA is a critical requirement for security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
about 9 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
5 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...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support NFSv4.2 server-side COPY offload in IBM Storage Scale CES NFS

IBM Storage Scale CES NFS currently returns NFS4ERR_NOTSUPP when an NFSv4.2 client issues the COPY operation. IBM support has confirmed that this operation is not currently supported. We request support for the NFSv4.2 server-side COPY operation b...
6 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Storage Level IOPS, & Granular IOPS (Volume, Host, Disk) Ansible Collections required for particular point of time - Average & Actual

We would like to capture Storage Level IOPS.& Granular level of storage (Pools, volumes, disks, Hosts). currently, there is no api available for this consolidation so whatever that is feasible in getting the metrics will be helpful. This calcu...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Certificate based Authentication for API communication

This will help us in having SSL certificate based connectivity between the applications this will help us to avoid password logging in ansible tower. This will also avoid reliance on Credentials during the operational workload and no need to rotat...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review