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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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Detailed overview in Fusion UI to display all resources actually captured by the backup or recipe

Suggestion for improvement:In order to support the targeted development of recipes that work correctly, a function for quick and complete content analysis of the individual created backups (and possibly also the restores) should be included in the...
about 20 hours ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
1 day ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
2 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

More functionality for ESS/SCALE

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation:And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots Ov...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Allow "modify volume capacity" of a volume in a volume group with PBR applied

For the moment, it is not possible to modify (in our case extend) a volume which is in a volume group where a replication policy is applied. This has a huge impact if we simply want to extend a volume (to increase a datastore capaciy for example)....
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
7 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions.Supplemental to idea TS77-I-166.
8 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Add Transparent Cloud Tiering configuration and testing into the GUI or WUI

Adding a TCT screen to the GUI could include features such as: Provide customer visible indicator of which TCT port is currently active. Add TCT port throughput to DS8K performance dashboard. View/Change TCT port configurations without using DSCLI...
9 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted