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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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Add Microsoft Hyper-V Support in IBM Storage Defender Sentinel and IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management

IBM Storage Defender Sentinel and IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management currently lack native support for Microsoft Hyper-V environments. This limits security scanning coverage for customers running Windows-based virtualization infrastructures...
5 days ago in Storage Sentinel 1 Submitted

ESXi 8.0.3 security scanning support form VMs with snapshots

Quote from the documentation: Sentinel server with version 8.10 or higher can scan virtual machines on ESXi version 8.0.3. However, if those VMs have VMware snapshots, the host will not scan them. Sentinel server with version 8.9 or earlier can al...
about 1 month ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

IBM Defender Sentinel - Sensor for Storage Scale / GPFS filesystems

We have a lot of customers with GPFS where we can see to sell Sentinel, but we need a support of filesystem agent. GPFS has safe guarded snapshots and policy engine, so it would be fine to use those features to implement security scans.
2 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
3 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
about 1 year ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Under review

Operations Center: Select multiple (but not all) servers for a report

Currently, you can select either one or all servers for a report. It would be very helpfull if you would be able to select a subset of servers.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration

Add option in Spectrum Protect OC to send reports in PDF format

One of my customers requested to have the option to send Spectrum Protect reports in PDF format via email. This is the same functionality that they have today, since they are using Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Common...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

Journal Based Backup Stall

In this case, the journal database was not updating and so backups became stale until a Full Incremental was run. This request is for a monitoring alert for when the journal db does not receive any updates, perhaps in the last 24 hours.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Is a defect

Method for monitoring/alerting on performance of cache to S3 data movement

There is currently no method to monitor the migration of local cache storage to S3 object storage. There is therefore no easy way to know if data are being moved and if they are moving sufficiently quickly to be completed before the next backup. I...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Future consideration