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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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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...

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The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
about 8 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Multi-factor authentication for Storage Deep Archive

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support Multi-factor authentication for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind security enhancement, and would greatly i...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Planned for future release

Allow Storage Insights to recieve and pass on notifications from other tools such as CSM

The idea is to make SI the single pain of glass for the entire storage environment. An example would be for it to log notification from CSM when replicated volumes go out of sync. This would reduce the number of IBM tools the customer has to setup...
about 8 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Deep Archive and Vaulting

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently include support for off-site or out-of-library tape vaulting . Although this functionality is not used on a daily basis, it could be very useful for customers who need to export ca...
about 15 hours ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

Deep Archive and QoS at bucket level

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support QoS. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring bandwidth throttling applied at bucket level, and would greatly increase the adoption of this technol...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

mmdsh rest api command

With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
4 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Deep Archive Integration with Microsoft Entra ID

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support integration with Microsoft Entra ID for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind of integration, and would greatly...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

Deep Archive support for S3 Partial Object Retrieval

The current software version of IBM Storage Deep Archive (1.2.0) does not support S3 partial object retrieval functionality. This feature would be particularly useful in the media industry and would greatly increase the adoption of this technology...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Submitted

Ability to restore an Oracle DB to a single host in a RAC cluster

Basically, we need to be able to select one member of a cluster as a restore destination.
1 day ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted