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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    Allowed DRS sources vs remote locations (ROBO)

    We currently have 2 onprem clusters for DP configured within DRS. We have those 2 discovered and scanning/reporting within DRS. We also added multiple Vcenter connections to DRS, which manages our clusters onprem as well as remote sites where ROBO...
    2 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Provide a way to acknowledge backup status of "Without backups" instead of using the Exclude button, which relates more to the Recovery Group feature.

    With DRS scanning our environments, it discovers VMs that are "Without Backups". Some are indeed to look at, but many are VMs that do not require backups. Test machines, lab servers, POC VMs etc. It would be nice to have a way to acknowledge this ...
    2 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

    Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
    12 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Submitted

    Allow Dynamic loading of TLS Certificates - do not require a halt and restart to take effect

    TLS Cert standards are shortening their max ttl. After March 15th 2026, the max TTL for a TLS Cert is 199 days. This will shorten to 100 days on March 15th, 2027 and to 47 days after March 15th, 2029.Other software has Dynamic Certificate Manageme...
    3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    when using a (pbha-) partitions ip address to access the (pbha-) partition via ssh: make the accessed partition visible. e.g. modify the ssh-prompt and add the partitions name.

    greater customer satisfaction when using ssh to access a partition.
    10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    allow network endpoint address to be edited on an external source (S3).

    Currently, once you have defined an external source you can edit several parameters, but the endpoint address (network address/ip) cannot be changed.
    5 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    On-prem Storage Insights

    Last week, I met with a PSU BFSI client and presented IBM Storage Insights (SaaS). We requested them to integrate their storage systems with the Storage Insights SaaS offering. We conducted a detailed technical discussion and whiteboarding session...
    23 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

    VM clones should be created and made available in seconds, not minutes

    For our ETH Zurich internal customers we need to be able to provide new VMs automatically, sometimes in large numbers, and we must be capable of creating and making such VM clones available within a few seconds. Moving VMs within a VM datastore cl...
    19 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Enable custom certificates for Storage Scale CNSA GUI on OpenShift

    We have to secure all Web GUIs with custom certificates from our In House CA. In detail we need the ibm-spectrum-scale-gui route from the ibm-spectrum-scale namespace to be secured by a custom certificate.
    11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Update the default settings for DCOPYT, TIMEOUT, PFRLOCO and DELEXP

    With the new TS7700 3948, we are using the new 10GB Grid links. When there is an network issue, the first thing support states is to update the default settings for DCOPYT and TIMEOUT values from manufacturing.
    2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

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