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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Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
29 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
7 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270), only the current prim...
14 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

To enable Almalinux OS support on IBM Defender.

The is a discontinued Linux distribution that provided a free and open source community-supported computing platform, and AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatibl...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Provide last login time / date via DSCLI lookup

This is a requirement for audit purposes to be able to provide a list of users with last login date via a feed from the DSCLI. Currently you can get this information via the GUI but we can't get it via the DSCLI commands which is a requirement in ...
28 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

More functionality for ESS/SCALE

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation:And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots Ov...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
27 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
29 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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