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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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Ability to set a legal notice on login page to GUI and TSSC

Ability to set a legal notice on login to GUI and TSSC pages. A requirement is that we have a legal notice on the login pages to the GUI/TSSC to reinforce around the computer misuse act. This is a risk requirement of the organization backed by reg...
3 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
19 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

TS7700 library settings control to manage GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold, Attention Message Interval, SIM Generation Interval

Provide an update to the z/OS Host library settings command for customer to be able to manage below settings, currently only IBM can view and manage the settings. 1. GRID Link Degraded Link Threshold 2. GRID Link Attention Message Interval 3. GRID...
3 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

New Flash 4th Site command in 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

It is requested to provide a new command "Flash 4th Site" that would provide similar functionality to the "Flash 3rd Site" command. We would request that the 4 Site session, knowing the current 4th site, would carry out all of the steps required t...
about 9 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Integrate SGC Hold and Release Commands into 4 Site Replication Enhanced session

The recently delivered SGC Hold and Preserve Backups command and the SGC Release Backup Expiration command are extremely useful for certain clients. In a 4 site environment, the Scheduled Task to automate this process must either me modified upon ...
about 9 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add Filter to the Role Pair Panel

When working on larger CSM configurations with large number of copysets (10,000+), it is difficult to find specific volumes when looking in the Role Pair Details page. It would be very useful to have a Filter box to very quickly find certain volum...
1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Storage Nickname Column in the Storage Panel for DS8000

For larger clients that have numerous DS8000s (or for any storage systems, I guess), it would be very helpful if CSM users could specify a customizable "nickname" for each DS8000 which would show up as another column in the storage panel. It would...
1 day ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Trigger Customized Client-Initiated Call Home via DSCLI or API

As a DS8000 user with numerous DS8000s in our environment, we do not currently have an automated method to trigger an IBM Health Check on one or more of our DS8000 systems. Due to security concerns, we do not currently have IBM Storage Insights im...
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Allow change Fusion HCI hostnames and rack units (rack-less option)

Currently, Fusion HCI uses hostnames that appear to be fixed and cannot be modified. It would be beneficial to allow customers to change these hostnames to align with their own naming conventions.Additionally, the default hostnames include the rac...
3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Data Protection for VMware - vSphere 9 support

As we need to update to vSphere 9, could you please support this release? Data Protection for VMware supports vSphere 8.0 only (beginning with 8.1.17). https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/requirements-documents-ibm-storage-protect-virtual-environments