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 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 5 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    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...
    1 day 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.
    9 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    Improve object identification in DRS webhook notifications

    IBM Storage Defender DRS webhook notifications frequently identify Recovery Groups, data sources, virtual machines, and other protected objects only by their internal IDs. When customers receive notifications such as compliance violations, at-risk...
    8 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 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).
    14 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
    14 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.
    14 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    Resynchronization mechanism for Multi-Library configurations

    When a node fails on Diamondback deep archive in multlibrary configuration writes continue on the surviving node but within the same library (not across libraries as designed), and once the failed node returns, data isn't automatically resynced to...
    14 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    Multilibrary configuration - CES/failover between clusters not working as required

    Cluster 2 nodes are part of the internal Scale cluster but excluded from CES, so ingestion IP failover between racks doesn't happen automatically — a hard requirement for the customer's HA needs. Currently only achievable via manual workaround.
    14 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    IP/failover limitations

    Only one ingestion IP is active by default across the 4-node Multi-Library cluster;
    14 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

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