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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Keep supporting directly attached FlashSystem storage on IBM i

Reading this page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7032023 it states: -- quote -- IBM i connected using directly attached Fibre Channel IBM i is not supported as a host operating system when connected using directly attached Fibre Channel t...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

New power supply models

A dozen of power supplies replacement in less than 6 months on two TS4300. The quality of this components have to be reviewed.
5 months ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode e.g. AES-256-XTS
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Add number of mounts to REST GET DataCartridges response

With the new media lifecycle information provided in mount history report and via REST, clienst will also want to know the number of mounts for cartridges. The mount history report provides the mount count, the REST API doesn't. For automation pur...
5 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Create flashcopy from "Volumes by hosts and clusters" view

It would be great to be able to create flashcopies from other places than "Copy services", like "Volumes" or "Volumes by hosts and clusters". Today, you need to first check what volumes are attached to a specific host or cluster and then go into "...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system: by default

When removing copy sets from the Safeguarded Copy session, the following options are available: Remove the hardware relationships (option by default) Keep the base hardware relationships on the storage system. A customer would like that the “keep”...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Scheduled Task Creation and Modification commands are needed for REST API and CLI to automate Volume Group Snapshot configuration.

The newer version of Safeguarded Copy in the FlashSystems does not have the sessions automatically imported like the Legacy FC based Safeguarded Copy did. Everything is available to automate this process via the CLI or REST API except the Schedule...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Tape support for IBM Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to use tapes as a target for backup storage. Many customers wants to use tape for long term retentions and in some cases are obligated to do tape for compliance reasons.
8 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Delivered

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