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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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Requesting Storage Defender Development team to expedite development of support for Defender Sensors for Aix Os

In most of the engagements in select accounts in India , there is at least a 50 % prevalence of Aix hosts , I suspect the case to be similar for multiple accounts in ISA & APAC region. While currently we have sensors for Rhel 9 , Suse & Ub...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 6 Future consideration

TSM client & server support for CENTOS

Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Being able to define an IP white listing to access the Defender Services DMS and DRS

DMS and DRS are SaaS based services which are widely accessible from the Internet. Although there are strong authentication, MFA and other security mechanism controlling the access, some clients are requesting the possibility to restrict access to...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Support RHEL as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server

Now, it is only supported SLES 15.4 as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server. But, my client and many customers in the world are using RHEL(x86_64) as OS for IA-Linux environment. Providing additional SLES, not RHEL is an unacceptable requirement fo...

Add AIX support to Storage Defender

Storage Defender lacks AIX support. Both are IBM products and why one IBM Product doesn't support another IBM product used by many IBM customers?
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Needs more information

IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip

Ternary.txt ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip. we do not need to develop the quantum - super conductor 150kw sub zero temperatures. it is enough that we develop a proper ternary quantum chip. ternary chip has three states -1 0...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Integrate GKLM into Defender for Key Management/Monitoring

Integrate IBM Storage Defender with IBM Global Key Lifecycle Management (GKLM) to enhance key management and monitoring capabilities. Objectives: Enable Storage Defender’s Disaster Recovery Service (DRS) to recognize and interface with GKLM server...
7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Under review

Hyperlink SP4C login from Defender landing page

Customers who are seeking to purchase an end to end data resiliency platform have also indicated a need to backup cloud workloads from the same pane of glass. Storage Protect for Cloud is the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market and by me...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration