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 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...
    1 day 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...
    11 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    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...
    4 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Support OS configured sssd/PAM using FreeIPA/Redhat IDM on CES Nodes as an Austhentication Service including Kerberos Netgroups for sharing same NFS V4 and SMB Shares

    Hi Today Storage Scale does not support FreeIPA/Redhat IDM as a valid supported Authentication Service.  As My customer standard operating system uses PAM/sssd based user/group authentication all linux user access/authorization on CES nodes, ...
    5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Preview all removable or source volumes that a MOVE DATA operation will require before execution. Generate a complete recall list of removable volumes for a specified source volume or set of volumes. Include all dependent volumes identified through aggreg

    Preview all removable or source volumes that a MOVE DATA operation will require before execution. Generate a complete recall list of removable volumes for a specified source volume or set of volumes. Include all dependent volumes identified throug...
    1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    support for exporting vdisk to external USB device

    Size of external storage media (be it SSD, NVMe, simple USB stick, harddrive, ...) increases fast, so does speed. To have the possibility to export single or multiple vdisks onto such an external drive would open many possibilities in our environm...
    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...
    8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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

    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).
    24 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
    24 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

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