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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Single virtual S3 endopoint for Multi-Site IBM Storage Deep Archive

Within a Storage Deep Archive architecture deployed across multiple geographically separate sites, S3 clients should be able to access the service through a single resilient logical endpoint, regardless of which physical site is active. In the cur...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted
112 VOTE

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 ...
24 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

SVC GUI SCU calculator

SVC SCU calculation is physical capacity-based with a disk type conversion factor value (Calculation Terms: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=L-PGBC-EPMNYG&lc=en). SVC GUI show the compressed space mounted; this is higher fro...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Repurpose AFM as Service Node on Fusion HCI

We have customers that purchased racks with AFM nodes and did not have service nodes. Many have converted from GDP to FDF and now have AFM that are not used. Can we convert the AFM nodes to service nodes?
3 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Enable NDMP NAS Restore to Alternate Filer Without Modifying Production Datamover Configuration

Background / Context The customer currently, restoring NDMP NAS backups to an alternate NetApp filer requires modifying the production datamover configuration (IP address and drive path). As documented in the IBM technote: https://www.ibm.com/supp...
13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery Submitted

Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
23 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Display data collection permission information in Storage system table for support role

Support role can see data collection permission information only when going to System actions > Get logs. It would be great if permission information could be seen in Storage system table or under Log access in settings.
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Enable Full Export and Correlation of Affected Files and Alerts in DMS Anti-Ransomware UI

Currently, when an anomaly or ransomware detection event occurs within the DMS Security Anti-Ransomware interface, the “Affected Files” page does not provide a supported mechanism to export or download the complete list of affected files. At this ...
19 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Local key manager for tape encryption

Today, tape encryption requires the use of an external key manager, e.g. GKLM. Customers are reluctant to adopt tape encryption because of the overhead the key manager infrastructure introduces into their operations: Licenses are required, bare me...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

SI option to change GUI language (browser independent)

There's no way to change SI's GUI language but to set one's browsers language accordingly. We can't change our browser language from German to English as that would break many of our workflows (time, date and number formats), still we would like t...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

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