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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    Threat Detection for Ceph

    IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in Ceph to detect and report an early attack.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Network option for Ceph Ready Nodes

    Our customers have asked us to upgrade their network performance and availability for Ceph Ready Nodes. Therefore, we would like you to add networking options as well as disk drives. - Number of NIC ports. Currently, with only two ports(10GbE), cu...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

    IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

    We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

    ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip

    Ternary.txt ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip. we do not need to develop the quantum - super conductor 150kw sub zero temperatures. it is enough that we develop a proper ternary quantum chip. ternary chip has three states -1 0...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    MGR Dashboard LDAP/AD Integration

    Integrating AD/LDAP domains for user authentication to ceph mgr dashboard. This would benefit users in access restriction and user management with role-based access. For example, AD users would be able to authenticate using their own domain creden...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 1 Functionality already exists

    Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

    In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

    IBM Redbooks for IBM Spectrum Protect / IBM SpectrumProtect Plus

    There are no longer IBM Redbooks for this product available. The education budget was shrinked and the Admin Guide was removed. Where should customers get information how to work with this product
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

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