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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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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

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

IBM Redbooks for IBM Spectrum Protect / IBM SpectrumProtect Plus

There are no longer IBM Redbooks for this product available. The education budget was shrinked and the Admin Guide was removed. Where should customers get information how to work with this product
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Enable bond1 (25GbE cards) with FDF (Lenovo nodes) to be used with VLANs and VMs

We noticed that currently the 25 GbE cards are mostly used for management/provisioning purposes. This fact got us thinking if we could use said network cards for a testing/development environment. The fundamental idea would be enabling a Linux net...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

GPU operator automation - enhancement

There are currently plans to automate the implementation of the GPU operator installation on detection of a specified GPU node. the operator automation process needs to completely deploy all the configuration of the Nvidia Operator including being...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Ship Fusion HCI with OCP and Fusion container images

When installing into an air-gap environment it is expected to mirror a specific OpenShift release and the Fusion images, then import them into the client network and push into the client provided private registry. This process is not tested proper...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Containerized AFM node

We would like to have a containerized AFM node as an option in Fusion. Also, what type of encryption would be used in storage?
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Needs more information

For security reasons, Storage Protect components should use file access rights 750 (DORA)

Resulting from DORA, customer Finance Informatik needs to improve operational resilience. From Wikipedia: "The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), officially Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 is a European Union regulation. It requires financial en...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Fusion Backup and Recovery - Restore single files from VM backup

We would like to implement single file restore for Fusion Backup Restore. Today we are required to restore to a separate namespace and copy files as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-fusion-software/2.8.x?topic=virtualization-ba...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration