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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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.

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IBM Storage Virtualize in PBHA+DR deployments

Hello IBM Team, We would like to submit a Request for Enhancement for IBM Storage Virtualize in PBHA+DR deployments. In our environment, we have implemented a 3-site replication topology based on PBHA+DR architecture, where two storage systems for...
about 13 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

DS8900 ability to run advanced call home for SI on HMC

Customer is retiring older windows VM machines that run the SI data collector. They would like the ability to have advanced call home for SI on these systems so that they don't have to standup dedicated systems just to run a data collector for sys...
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Enable Encrypted Email (SMTP over TLS) Relay Support on IBM TS7700

Add support for encrypted SMTP email relay (STARTTLS and/or SMTPS) for TS7700 system-generated email notifications, including alerts, events, and health status messages. Enterprise security policy requires all system and infrastructure email commu...
1 day ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (SGC) offload to TS7700 VTL

DS8000 users are driving multiple Safeguarded Copy (SGC) cycles per day - and are keeping many days worth of those SGC copies on the DS8000... but many have also expressed wanting to keep 'more' copies on TS7700 VTL. For example, perhaps making a ...
7 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

IAM user policies

In AWS S3, it is common practice to grant bucket access via IAM user policies. This is often much simpler and more straightforward than using bucket policies. The necessary structures have already been added to the noobaa source project. https://g...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Storage Protect server and storage agent should be supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4

We need to update all our AIX hosts to AIX 7.3 TL4 in near future. Because of this, we require that the Storage Protect server and storage agent are supported to run on AIX 7.3 TL4.
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

DHBA Command Support on FlashSystem

Dear IBM Development Team, We would like to formally submit this IBM Idea / Request for Enhancement (RFE) to request consideration of an enhancement related to FlashSystem behavior identified through an IBM AIX support case. Background During the ...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

SP server receiving STA messages should write STA messages out to filetextexit

This idea is related to idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3471 requesting that the Storage Protect storage agent should report all its messages to the Storage Protect server it is connecting to. The Storage Protect server receiving the messag...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System Submitted

Device‑less FlashCopy at Volume Level

Introduce the ability to create FlashCopy backups at the volume level without requiring pre‑allocated physical target devices. This device‑less FlashCopy capability would function similarly to Safeguarded Copy, where no physical storage is consume...
7 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

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