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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increase max nuber of storage partitons in a flash grid

current limit is 32, we have very large sans and have hit the limit already on our flash grid.
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

[Copy] Support TDP for MSSQl running on Linux

MS is now supporting MS-SQL running on Linux. It would be nice to do a backup of that too.
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Planned for future release

LDAP information included in storage summary report

In the current output for the DS8000 storage summary report, there are a lot of configuration items included with it. Noticeably absent is the inclusion of LDAP information including whether LDAP is enabled, which server is being used, and whether...
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Develop the Transparent Cloud Tiering capability to send snapshots to cloud, but use a different Ethernet port than the managment port.

Would like to send snapshots to the cloud vs. storing them locally long term. This funcationality exists, but requires the use of the management network to connect to the cloud. Would like to use another Ethernet port to send snapshots to the clou...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Implement email notification to checker users for new or pending dual control requests

Email still is the predominant communication method in enterprises, users are frequently checking their mailboxes. Today, a dual control request doesn't create a trigger to the "outside world" other than in the GUI or DSCLI environment. So a check...
5 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

The possibility to set end time or duration when defining storage rule for auditing storage pools

To reduce or define time spent daily on audit stgpool and better planning of administrative processes. To not have administrative processes overlap, it would be useful to be able to control time spent on audit.
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Submitted

Dual Control for DS8900F

Given that the EOS for the DS8900F is not expected to be available until late 2030, many field installations of this generation will be around until then and beyond. And as the threat of cyberattacks is on the rise, it would be beneficial for IBM ...
5 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

enhance onboard performance monitoring

For many years customers have been asking to enhance the built-in performance monitoring capabilities in StorV's GUI. For a while now we're offering a 60 days history but only at an overall system/node level. However, many customers expect from an...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

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