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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Product functionality

GUI - Copy Services (Mirroring View: Volumes grouped by Session)

On DS8880 and prior, the Storage Manager GUI provided a view on source system under Copy Services > Mirroring that grouped Volumes by GM Session. Starting on the DS8900 series the same view simply lists all Volumes (which is not overly helpful ...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

IBM Storage Protect Client Installation/upgrade in Windows environment Windows System should not reboot to take effect

This is regarding a customer query related to the IBM Storage Protect BA Client on the Windows platform. When an end user installs or performs a version upgrade of the Storage Protect BA Client, the installation process currently triggers a Window...

Support for HPE VM Essentials with FlashSystem (including PBR/HA)

MSP considering HPE VM Essentials as VMware replacement, but need FlashSystem/SVC support
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Safe Bucket Policy Handling with generateBucketName

Environment: IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation / ODF 4.19.1 Rook-Ceph Operator Buckets provisioned via ObjectBucketClaims (OBCs) GitOps automation using Helm + Argo CD generateBucketName used for dynamic bucket namin Problem Summary: Destructive ...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Extend IBM Storage Copy Data Management to support Safeguarded Snapshot at the Volume Group level, including groups configured with PBHA+DR, PBHA replication policies

Hello, IBM Storage Copy Data Management currently supports Safeguarded Snapshot only at the individual volume level. For environments where applications span multiple volumes, this limitation increases operational complexity and risk during recove...
4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Integrate PB-HA volumes with Veeam Backup (qualification)

Many customers use Veeam Backup and want to purchase a disk system for this application, which can be found on the "Veeam Alliance Partner integrations and qualifications" page https://www.veeam.com/solutions/alliance-partner/integrations-qualific...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Aredent Health - Dell Customer - Optimize Masking View Creation by Resolving HostGroups During Restore

During restore, CDM needs to map LUNs to the hosts. If there are three separate hosts, CDM will create a masking view for each, which means: 2 Storage Groups × 3 Hosts = 6 masking views. But If their hosts are under a parent HostGroup, CDM will re...
4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management Submitted

Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Archive Future consideration