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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    task-based TPI

    The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

    Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

    Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Bulk change volumes

    Before 9.1.0.1 you could hold shift to mark multiple hosts with one click and then change many parameters for all of them at the same time. For example, setting an IOPS or bandwidth limit, adding them to volume groups and so on. This feature is no...
    15 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environment.

    Incorporating IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environments would significantly enhance functionality. This enhancement would enable clients curr...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Please bring back show hosts by host ports in the hosts menu

    Because its a pain having to view host properties then selecting the port definitions tab every time
    24 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

    Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

    In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

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