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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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Test function for callhome setting

We have callhome function, but there is no test button that customer can test communication between their system and callhome server.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Bring more parity from Manager to Storage Account Admin portal for managing Container Vault

The request is to enhance the Storage Account Administration Portal to bring it more in line and parity with feature/functionality offered for Standard Vaults. Things like being able to track throughput with a chart (like aggreate Accesser through...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Support custom certs on endpoints using Vault Proxy

The Vault Proxy feature does not work if the Accesser Device (or Access Pool) is using Customer signed certificates. The feature will only work when the IBM signed certificates are present. For customers that require using their own organization's...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Provide data migration feautres for inter-vault/bucket and retention-enabled buckets

Provide data migration feautres for inter-vault/bucket and retention-enabled buckets. DMS will support vault to vault migration, with certain caveats, and only within the same COS system. Customer would like a capability to migrate across COS syst...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Provide qualified third-party firmware upgrade software packages with ClevOS

ClevOS currently provides IBM branded hardware firmware upgrade packages as part of the ClevOS appliance image. It has been requested to also include similar upgrade packages for COS qualified third-party appliances, such as the HP devices and the...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Aggregate Client-Accesser Throughput graph

There needs to be an Aggregate Client-Accesser Throughput graph that overlays lines from every vault on the system, so we can easily spot the trend from all vaults to see which one is the busiest. This saves us from having to click through EVERY v...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Need Support for Open Enterprise Server (OES) OS which is LINUX Distribution

My customer just upgraded his supported OES to a newer version and are being told by IBM that it's no longer support on Spectrum Protect. This OS has been supported in the past (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/linux-x8664-requirements-ibm-st...

Add support for Enterprise Tape

For users who are looking into upgrading their older tape libraries but want to keep their existing drives and/or media.
2 days ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Submitted

Storage Scale - A GPFS node with multiple nic drivers (ip addresses) should not be able to rejoin the cluster when the daemon interface is down

Our storage nodes have multiple nic drivers and IP addresses (RoCE network). When the nic for daemon IP is down (dev bond0), it will still keep trying to rejoin the cluster again and again, because its another nic (dev bond1) is still working. But...
3 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

Provide options within SP to use SCSI commands to work with the tape operations, like mount a tape, unmount a tape, move tape from one slot to another etc

This is required for day to day operations, and this option is pretty much available with all other backup product vendors Refer - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100022873 IBM case Ref - Case: TS016303198 (ibm.com)
4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted