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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run the Fusion Data Catalog under podman

This would allow more Scale customers that are entitled to Fusion Data Catalog Service to run it without additional infrastructure to run. Podman could run the Fusion Data Catalog service on a Scale System utility node. We would have more adoption...
about 21 hours ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Under review

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Enhance Interface of CES-S3 to add a functionality to create automaticaly a fileset for the bucket path, if a s3 user use s3 mb cmd over the AWS cli

With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Spectrum Scale ECE - Support 512 storage nodes in a single ECE cluster

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our customers are expecting a single GPFS cluster and file system to scale to a larger size. We need a single GPFS cluster to surpass the current limit of 256 storage nodes, reaching...
6 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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