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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    Allow access to Reporting feature for support users(RTS)

    Remote Technical Support(RTS) teams have access to SI instances to help clients with performance and capacity issues. We occasionally also get requests related to the Reporting feature in SI, but we don't have access to this feature. Additionally,...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Add monitoring for the "phy error counters" that are currently displayed in the tssastools log, and which can only be verified via a snap

    We've encountered several issues related to disk problems and crashes. After opening several cases, in one of them (TS022401811) , we have been notified about a significant increase in these counters. This problem wasn't being reported anywhere by...
    3 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Allow manual input of Storage Insights Tenant ID in system setup wizard (FS9600 9.1.2.1)

    Current implementation of FS9600 system setup wizard (9.1.2.1) requires internet access for the browser, apparently only for retrieving the customer's Storage Insight Tenant ID to be used in the subsequent underlying "chcloudcallhome -sitenantid x...
    12 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted
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    Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

    With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Enable PIV/CAC Certificate-Based Authentication with LDAP for IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700

    We request an enhancement to the IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700 systems to support certificate-based authentication using PIV/CAC cards in conjunction with LDAP. Currently, these systems only support password-based authentication with LDAP, which does no...
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    CES S3 Support for "Atomic Conditional Write" (compareAndSet)

    The current CES S3 protocol does not support an S3 compareAndSet operation. This is a requirement for attaching ElasticStack to the CES S3 protocol nodes. Attachment of ElasticStack to IBM Storage Scale using CES S3 would enable ElasticStack to st...
    12 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Enable PIV/CAC Certificate-Based Authentication with LDAP for IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700

    We request an enhancement to the IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700 systems to support certificate-based authentication using PIV/CAC cards in conjunction with LDAP. Currently, these systems only support password-based authentication with LDAP, which does no...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    "Certificate Signing Request" with custom CN and secure enough RSA key (>=4096 bit)

    So far only 2048 bit RSA key is supported which does not go well with our security guideline. We furthermore need to be able to set/add a custom CN for the certificate signing. It would also be fine, to import our own certificates, as possible wit...
    12 days ago in IBM DS8000 1 Submitted

    Support multiple concurrent Policy-Based High Availability (PB-HA) 2-site-ha relationships on a single IBM Storage Virtualize system or IO Group.

    ### How should it work?1. Hub-and-Spoke PB-HA Topology: Allow a central storage system (System A) to simultaneously maintain independent active-active '2-site-ha' PB-HA relationships with different target systems (e.g., System B <-> System A...
    9 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

    When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 9 Under review

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