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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
2 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review