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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 48

Concurrent upgrade with Ds8k and 21st Century software VSE

Concurrent upgrade with Ds8k as a storage for 21st Century software VSE ZOS
21 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Needs more information

IBMTOOLs update

I know IBM is working on updated IBMTOOLs libraries. I would like to see the dates expanded in the IBMTOOLs report VEHAUDIT so it has a 4 character year. Thank you.
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 4 Needs more information

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 ...
2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 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

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...
4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information

Host cluster view option

It would be useful to have an option that shows host clusters in the overview panel where hosts are shown. I have attached a drawing of what it could look like. Thanks
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

Enforce HSTS in TS7700

TS7700 Web GUI is not enforcing HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), which allows downgrade attacks, SSL-stripping man-in-the-middle attacks and weakens cookie-hijacking protections. It should be either enforced by default or it should be possib...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Needs more information

Azure Linux support for Scale ECE

Azure CTO has a mandate for all providing Core Applications to run on Azure Linux. In order to expand into HDFS environment ( 4 Exabytes of usable storage) , Scale ECE must run on Azure Linux. This is a request for ECE to run on Azure Linux.
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Needs more information

Reclaim database space

I know that Storage Protect automatically does some database maintenance operations, such as reorganization. It would also be useful do do some equivalent of db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE LARGESPACE1 REDUCE MAX" (and/or the same for other tablespaces), to...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Needs more information

Change behaviour of "move nodedata" command so that when the destination storage pool has a copy storage pool setup data is moved to both primary and copy storage pools

Being able to "move nodedata" to both a destination storage pool and its copy storage pool would be useful to maintain at least to copies of the data when moving data. Using the backup storage pool command can sync both source and copy storage poo...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.