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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Ideas

    Showing 856 of 5999

    AFM Local Filesystem Caching Support

    Allow AFM to cache data from a "home" of a local filesystem mounted on a node. This could be a local filesystem on a single node or a shared filesystem such as HDFS fuse mounted or other mounted POSIX filesystem such as a Lustre/ZFS/XFS/etc...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    allow s3 nooba to upload user files to gpfs

    we have setup mmces S3 to allow users to write into an immutable fileset (Noncompliant Mode) for long term archiving their data. Listing and reading files from or even removing them in the fileset via S3 works as expected. But an upload of new dat...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enable AWS STS support

    Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

    Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

    User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

    Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    mmbackup: Backup extended acls separately to eliminate "updated" backup

    mmbackup should generate a database of file/dir extended acls and back up such database so that TSM can be run with the SKIPACL option enabled. When the only change to a file is its extended acl or permissions, it is a waste of resources having to...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

    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

    Protocols - S3: subnet restrictions in S3 bucket policies

    One of our ESS clusters stores highly sensitive data for around two thousand projects that needs to be kept strictly separate between projects, so we neeed the possibility to add subnet-requirements to buckets for proper data separation, like we c...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    Include IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

    The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
    5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.