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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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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...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

Need ability to toggle interfaces back to undefined from SCSI or FICON

This would make is easier to determine which interfaces are actually in error for loss of light.
19 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

Interval of "compressionThreshold"

In CVC 375851, DS8k CLI Development had asked to address these 3 requests from the customer via RFE ----------------------------------------------------------------1.) The command of "chextpool -compressionThreshold nn Px" is already included in t...
17 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

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10 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Needs more information

Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

Need support for Microsoft Authenticator as MFA

Microsoft's MFA is a very popular MFA and with Microsoft's solution compassing all enterprise needs, even MFA capability are being adopted as standard in large clients. Hence this integration is being asked from 18 months. Please consider it on pr...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information

Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM Insights

In IBM insights there in feature to view Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM InsightsAdding them will be benefit for customer.
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

MFA features require to add Google authentication

Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect has Google authentication enabled, but IBM Flash Storage and SVC do not support Google authentication or MFA features. Including this functionality in upcoming versions would be highly beneficial, as it would allow ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information