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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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Quorum/Tiebreaker architecture flaw

On Multilibrary configuration the default config places 2 quorum nodes in Rack 1 and only 1 in Rack 2 — if Rack 1 goes down, Rack 2 loses quorum and requires manual intervention during DR. No customer-accessible way to fix this (root required).
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

Full Deep Archive administration via GUI

Current GUI is tech-preview only (no task detail, no performance graphs, no user/bucket creation); everything is CLI-only today
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

Scale GUI on Deep Archive

Expose the Scale GUI on Deep Archive to support monitoring, administration, and troubleshooting.
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

Resynchronization mechanism for Multi-Library configurations

When a node fails on Diamondback deep archive in multlibrary configuration writes continue on the surviving node but within the same library (not across libraries as designed), and once the failed node returns, data isn't automatically resynced to...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

Multilibrary configuration - CES/failover between clusters not working as required

Cluster 2 nodes are part of the internal Scale cluster but excluded from CES, so ingestion IP failover between racks doesn't happen automatically — a hard requirement for the customer's HA needs. Currently only achievable via manual workaround.
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

IP/failover limitations

Only one ingestion IP is active by default across the 4-node Multi-Library cluster;
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

Fix the Hydra↔Deep Archive heartbeat/timeout process

Align timeout expectations with the cache/tape/restore-queue model and stop retaining unnecessary heartbeat files.
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

IBM Fusion version selection - need a way to access previous version from the Fusion operator

The solution supports an on-premises deployment of IBM Software Hub / Cloud Pak for Data (ISH/CPD) on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP), leveraging IBM Fusion Data Foundation and Backup & Restore services. The deployment consists of both a Production en...
1 day ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Enable the TS4500 Tape Library to accept TLS 1.2 + configuration (Dual TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3)

As the security landscape changes and companies need to fortify their online borders, there has been a widespread push to adopt TLS 1.3. The TS4500 currently only supports TLS 1.2 and many efforts are underway for companies to move forward with th...
4 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Secure Data Overwrite

I would like to request a secure data over write (Disk Sanitization) process for Fusion as we have for our other products (DS8k , Tape). The current developer for the tape SDO is Heiko Schloesser / hhschloe@us.ibm.com . I would like to formally re...
10 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review