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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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FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.

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Support for SUSE K8s

would be useful to have more than OpenShift in the field
2 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

3rd Party storage, support and validation

We should validate and claim support for 3rd party remote storage such as that of DELL, Pure, NetApp. This was we can set our foot into the door of customers who have already and established relationship with their storage vendors. Technically wit...
8 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Allow to the replace command to reclaim tapes in parallel

Hi, From time to time we need to run the "eeadm tape replace" command to replace from the tape library, some tapes that the Storage Archive detect some read or write actions and decide that this tape is not healthy and it has to be removed and rep...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

Ability to send both configuration logs and information log to a syslog server

Customer is requesting the ability to send all types of event messages to the syslog server. Currently either configuration logs, or information logs, are able to be sent to the server but not both. The specific request is that the capabilities of...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Under review

REST API Certificate Renewals for Hydra

In a large enterprise environment we have many certificates that need to be renewed. This additional functionality to the REST API will allow customers to automate the renewals of the management console certificates.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

REST API Certificate Renewals for TSSC

In an enterprise environment we need to automate the renewals of our certificates for the TS7700 estate.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

We hope IBM will also create a system configuration guide for us.

This time, I selected the TS4300 for convenience.My request applies to all storage hardware products. In Japan, computer equipment manufacturers create guides called "System Configuration Guides." These documents explain what is required to connec...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 0 Under review

now ibm csi issue job to gui, gui only has 16 threads to handle it, in some condition it is very slow, gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task

gui should support more threads to hanlde csi task
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Allow PVCs to use storage class with waitForFirstConsumer volumeBindingMode during restore operation

In multi-availability zone (AZ) environments, when a PVC is created with the volumeBindingMode set to Immediate, it is pre-created within a random availability zone. When the pod is created later to consume it, if it is not created in the same AZ,...
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Need Ability to use a single CA signed certificate for Multiple DS8K HMCs.

A separate certificate for each HMC is a productvity and security issue as certificates must be updated frequently.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review