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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    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 ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

    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...
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 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...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 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...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

    Add AIX support to Storage Defender

    Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Needs more information

    dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

    Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

    The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    Ability to select what to restore when the backup was created using a custom recipe

    Only when restoring backups created with the default recipe (i.e., without explicitly specifying a custom recipe within the associated policy assignment) is it possible to choose before the restore whether to restore the missing etcd resources and...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Needs more information

    Enable Web Proxy for DMS agent communication to IBM Cloud

    Build in a option to configure the use of a web proxy to enable the DMS agent for Storage Protect to communicate with the IBM Cloud for Storage Protect servers that do not/cannot have direct access to the internet and require a web proxy for inter...
    almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Needs more information

    Defender Data Protect (DDP) Configuration Backup

    Why is it useful? A DDP configuration backup is essential for quick recovery and business continuity in isolated environments without a remote cluster. Without it, a DDP server failure means manual re-configuration and re-onboarding, leading to si...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

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