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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.

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.

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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Update DSCLI windows client with Developer Signatures for Win 11 Security

The current DSCLI client will not install in Windows 11 environments secured with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, as the installer is not signed by a developer certificate. After moving to Windows 11, our storage admin team (4+ admins) is unable t...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Support Storage Scale Stretch cluster with metroDR of FusionSDS

IBM always push SDS approach. Giving customers the chance to use Storage Scale SW version as Active/ative storage ( stretch cluster) on fusion SDS will open us lots of opportunities
about 3 years ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Support DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Plus

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus works perfectly with DB2 databases. Unfortunately for all our critical databases, which are replicated using DB2 HADR, backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus is currently not supported.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Verify Management Class Contraints on Node Migration

When moving/migrating a TSM node from one TSM domain to another, and in the target TSM domain the management class used in the source does not exist in its policiy definitions, the default management class is used. The fall back to the default man...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Not under consideration

Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

DB2 on zLinux backup & restore

Request for Spectrum Protect Plus to backup and restore DB2 databases running under zLinux
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Future consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

NFS V4.1 Support

Need support for NVS V4.1
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Not under consideration

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Not under consideration