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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    Sign kernel modules and enable secure boot on ESS

    ESS updates are delivered as a set of components already tested together, but are still building kernel modules locally during the upgrade. This wastes time (building modules takes a lot of time), and makes it impossible to enable secure boot. Sin...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Make snapshotting independent from the GUI

    We had now several times that on some volumes the snapshotting stopped.Without an alert.Support mentioned us that this is due to gpfsgui failure, and indeed restarting gpfsgui resumes the snapshot shedules. Honestly, I think that is bad software d...
    12 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Implementation of DIMM error checking at IBM Storage Scale Systems

    It would be helpful to implement an DIMM error checking, which is raising a warning, when a memory DIMM is throwing to much errors.In the current ESS versions, we don't have such an checking in place. Massive recoverable DIMM errors will not be re...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

    Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Eliminate divisive language from your products

    We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

    Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Support

    LLDP is a technology used in cloud and automation scenarios which assists with Layer2 link discovery. Its works by broadcasting additional metadata and information about each network link to the network switches allowing for automation to more eas...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Include rpm package audispd-plugins into Storage Scale System bundle to improve audit logging capabilities.

    In an regulated environment it is required to configure several audit rules at OS level, to be compliant. To forward the resulting audit events to syslog, it is required to install the rpm package audisp-plugins, which is not part of the current I...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

    Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Export statistics from GUI as SVG

    We are constantly asked by customers for performance data. We usually make screenshots of the graphs generated in the statistics sections of the GUI. It would be a great improvement if we could simply export the graphs as SVG (or maybe PNG). A pos...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

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