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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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Enable Password Expiry Visibility in Storage Defender

Storage Defender currently lacks a feature to display or monitor password expiry dates for user accounts. This limitation affects all account types, including both individual user accounts and functional accounts used for automation and integratio...
3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
12 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

Threat Detection Sensor OpenShift

IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in containerized Envirnments (Openshift) to detect and report an early attack
5 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
11 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

Call home for Storage Defender

IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

SCDM support on Other Hypervisors such as KVM, Hyper-V ... and also make it available as a standalone binary to de deployed on both PowerVM (Linux and/or AIX) and x86 Linux.

With the recent VMware licensing changes a lot of customers has moved away from it and adopting other hypervisors. In Sentinel Bundle the SCDM component which plays the role of external orchestrator to the storage is only supported on VMware see h...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

allow to update the Defender Connection Manager with a HTTPS certificate signed by client CA, 2 tier PKI, certificates must include correct CN and SAN with FQDN

Related product: IBM Defender Connection Manager Idea: Establish a process in the Connection Manager GUI or on cmd line (similar to the backup / restore script) to create a new CSR = Certificate Signing Request and install a client provided certif...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

Integration between Defender DRS and IBM Concert

There is more and more focus on security, there is a need to automatic information gathering for everything that is helpful to manage CVE and Security Certificate (SSL/TLS) . DRS is being connected to different Data sources, from infrastucture com...
4 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration