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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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Flexibility to change the volume group from PBR to PBHA

Flexibility to change the volume group from PBR - Async replication to PBHA, just so that during DR drills; customer doesn’t have to bring the production systems down. Hence, flexibility of switching between PBR to PBHA and then back to PBR would ...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Needs more information

Allow ability to have MFA enabled on DS8k HMC.

Currently GUI side is able to do it but the HMC does not have the ability to enable it.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Needs more information

RADIUS Authentication Support and Expanded MFA Options for IBM FlashSystem

I'd like to propose adding support for authenticating FlashSystem arrays to an external RADIUS server. Increasingly, customers are requesting MFA implementations where the array authenticates via an open protocol like RADIUS to an external server,...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion Needs more information

Need ability to toggle interfaces back to undefined from SCSI or FICON

This would make is easier to determine which interfaces are actually in error for loss of light.
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 Needs more information

Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 Needs more information

Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM Insights

In IBM insights there in feature to view Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM InsightsAdding them will be benefit for customer.
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Needs more information

IBM INsights : volume level capacity metrics for an array and a specific volume in the array

we is looking for volume level capacity metrics, especially, for an array and a specific volume in the array , how is the volume capacity changes over a week / month etc this is very important feature to be available in metrics during the performa...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Needs more information

MFA features require to add Google authentication

Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect has Google authentication enabled, but IBM Flash Storage and SVC do not support Google authentication or MFA features. Including this functionality in upcoming versions would be highly beneficial, as it would allow ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Needs more information