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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    Backup TS4300 via REST/CLI

    Hi, at the moment it is only possible to backup the TS4300 via GUI. For this you have to navigate to: Settings - Library - Advanced - Save Configuration File Via REST you don't have such an option. Everything else what is needed is there, but no b...
    2 days ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Submitted

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

    Cluster-Level Expire Hold

    This request for Cluster-Level Expire Hold would be for the Expire hold setting to be allowed different Expire Hold settings per cluster. The current Expire hold setting is for Grid level only which is does not meet our requirements. This request ...
    about 18 hours ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Submitted

    Granular Capacity Expansion

    This request for Granular Capacity Expansion is to allow smaller, more granular variable capacity additions per cluster. Currently a feature code is required to purchase specific additional capacity for all clusters in a grid. We want to suggest a...
    about 18 hours ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 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...
    8 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...
    21 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Allow to set SP Server Option DIRECTIO at storage pool level

    In current Storage Protect server versions, the server option DIRECTIO can only be set at server level, affecting all storage pools.We are using DISK storage pools located on AIX JFS2 file systems and FILE storage pools located on Storage Scale.Fo...
    37 minutes ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Asymmetric replication (for ingest) to stretched clusters

    Stretched clusters are often used in scenarios where "eventually consistent with very small RPO" semantics for new files would be acceptable, but AFM can't be used because (a) data acccess is truly active/active and (b) replication is also providi...
    1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    "AFM mode" for CES-S3 to support S3 transporting files to be accessed as files

    AFM to a CES-S3 can move files to/from the S3 bucket, but from the point of view of the file system hosting CES-S3, the files are all owned by the bucket owner and other attributes like mode bits are stored as xattrs. This is fine if all access is...
    2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Possibility to exclude some volume from volume protection

    We want to activate volume protection on our FS9500 but if we do this we have an issue on thin-clone refresh besause the clone has been used during the period.
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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