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 a projection of "free logical capacity" to the GUI

    Add a projection of "free logical capacity" to the GUI (under the assumption, that the future compression factor will be similar to the existing one). The total logical capacity, as it is the "addressable limit" in case of very good compression re...
    3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Add a user choice capability for displaying different capacity units in the GUI

    The GUI Dashboard screen provides capacity information which is great for the user. However, the graphs are displayed in TiB, the mouseover tooltip displays values in kmod1. This is irritating for the user. Some users like to handle their capacity...
    3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Allow Dynamic loading of TLS Certificates - do not require a halt and restart to take effect

    TLS Cert standards are shortening their max ttl. After March 15th 2026, the max TTL for a TLS Cert is 199 days. This will shorten to 100 days on March 15th, 2027 and to 47 days after March 15th, 2029.Other software has Dynamic Certificate Manageme...
    10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Implement a Master Summary Process for GENERATE DEDUPSTATS Triggered by Storage Rules

    Current Behavior: Currently, when running GENERATE DEDUPSTATS via a Storage Rule (stgrule), the system generates X number of worker processes based on the MAXPROCESS parameter. Each of these individual processes only reports the status and progres...
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Restrict Critical Actions in AOS (Assist On-Site) Even for Root Users

    Summary: Implement safeguards in AOS to prevent root users from executing high-risk actions—specifically system shutdowns and core configuration changes—without additional authorization. To perform a shutdown, two independent authorizations must b...
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    Ability to Trigger Customized Client-Initiated Call Home via DSCLI or API

    As a DS8000 user with numerous DS8000s in our environment, we do not currently have an automated method to trigger an IBM Health Check on one or more of our DS8000 systems. Due to security concerns, we do not currently have IBM Storage Insights im...
    about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Status Code indicating when Cloud Quota Exceeded instead of generic TCT10D=Object storage server error

    The HTTP/1.1 502 with STATUS CODE: TCT10D=Object storage server error did not provide a quick explanation when the Cloud quota was reached. It would be desirable when the Cloud Quota is reached that a message indicating the problem would be provided.
    12 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Update DSCLI windows client with Developer Signatures for Win 11 Security

    The current DSCLI client will not install in Windows 11 environments secured with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, as the installer is not signed by a developer certificate. After moving to Windows 11, our storage admin team (4+ admins) is unable t...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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