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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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Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client)

Ability to rename a partition.

Once a Partition exists, it is not possible to change the name, while the partition name is based on hardware, applications, hosts (or combination).This can change over time and then it is more than desirable to be able to change this. Also renami...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

FS5200 support GKLM 5.0

Customer have implement latest GKLM version V5.X to encrypt FS5200.When trying to connect Disk equipement to GKLM , FS5200 complaint about not supported ekm server.Raising ticket TS019138372 , we got feedback this page stating the supported list h...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Volume and Host move between partitions (split partition)

We need the possibility to move volumes/LUNs and Hosts between partitions on the same system. The current Partition Design is very static and gives limited flexibility. This feature can be relevant if you want to split your current volume/LUN/host...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Support NVIDIA Blackwell for Fusion HCI GPU node

We're now planning to build a platform business with major SIer vendors in Japan. We're planning to propose Fusion as their platform equipped with GPUs, but they requested us the latest model Blackwell is needed to expand their business into infor...
12 months ago in Storage Fusion Delivered

add a NTP server for the rsyslog time of TSSC to be synced with external NTP

When I logged in to TSSC on one of our devices I noticed that the syslog had printed that I had logged in 19 minutes before I actually had... After raising this with IBM they told me the following: The 3957 TSSC that we use to log in and out of th...
about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases Delivered

Clean cache with migration when one copy is online

Customer store their data into two libraries, when one library is offline or failure, they can't clean storage scale cache with archive migration and have to wait for IBM repairing. While customer only have a little cache storage space, they have ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive Delivered

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.

Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

Policy Based Replication - Secondary Volumes Always Offline

My customer is planning to tech refresh their existing SAN Storage and IBM is one of the 4 vendors participated in the POC. With customer existing DR operations, the storage DR volumes are always at Online status, hence the volumes are always moun...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered