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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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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.

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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

volume formatting visibility

it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

Volume groups should not be allowed to be deleted if volumes containing snapshots are associated with them

Summary: Volume groups should not be allowed to be deleted if volumes containing snapshots are associated with them. Simple check.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

Dynamic grain size for point in time copy

Performance of small block applications like EPIC health record systems, reduce write amplification.
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

Developing a SW Storage Enabler for Windows Failover Clustering module

I believe that part of the laboratory that develops the "Storage Virtualize" code is made up of people who dealt with XiV, at least that's what Stefano Mensa (IBM) told me. For the XiV platform IBM had developed a SW Storage Enabler for Windows Fa...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Needs more information