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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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Enhanced Security and Usability for Trace Files

We would like to propose the following two enhancements for trace files generated by IBM Storage Protect. 1. Option to Exclude File Names from Trace Files The names of files being backed up may contain information from which confidential or privac...
2 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Submitted

Allow Local Break-Glass and IBM Service Accounts to Coexist with LDAP Authentication on DS8000 HMC

Enhance DS8000 HMC LDAP authentication to allow customers to selectively retain designated local accounts when LDAP authentication is enabled. Currently, we can successfully configure and use LDAP for remote user authentication. However, we also r...
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Enable LLDP on IBM FlashSystem Ethernet ports to advertise port details to connected network switches

Please add support for Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) on IBM FlashSystem Ethernet interfaces so connected network switches can automatically discover and identify storage ports. Requested functionality Advertise system name, system descripti...
about 4 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

support separate storage network for FDF

support separate storage network for FDF
17 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Cluster upgrade returns alerts against nodes indicating communication failures

When upgrading Defender Data Protect, the application can return alerts indicating communication failures with disks/systems: MarkDiskForRemovalMetadataServerUnreachable These alerts occur during the upgrade process and impact the node health/stat...
about 3 hours ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Allow user to specify output of node name/ID format globally instead of in each command

RequestSupport a variable in the cluster configuration via mmchconfig that allows a user to specify if node name output in any command should be done via1. Explicit shortname even if it includes duplicates2. Shortest unique name possible3. FQDN4. ...
about 15 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

official hypervisor support Vates / XCP-NG

Dear IBM Support, We are a Belgian CSP who uses IBM Flash System Storage & IBM SVC3. We have different models SVC and Flash Systems with host connection type fibre channel. Flash System FS5200 Flash System FS7300 Flash System FS7600 SVC-V3 SVC...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

IBMi power HA support for systems with iASP when using FlashSystem PBHA

Currently PBHA is supported in systems with ASP but not included for iASP. Support needed for this iASP deployment with PBHA replication
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Add a hierarchical GUI view for volume groups and their thin clones

There is no easy way in the FlashSystem GUI to see the association between a volume group and its thin clones in a hierarchical way. The CLi allows this with "lsvolumegrouppopulation -filtervalue source_volume_group_name=VG_NAME"
3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

TS7700 Cache Encryption recovery key (text string)

Currently, if TS7700 cache disk is encrypted using an external key server, does not support to generate the encryption recovery key (text string) in Storage GUI. The option is greyed out. I believe it is restricted by Firmware to disable this opti...
3 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted