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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Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
22 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
about 21 hours ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Open AOS for TS4500 and TS770 via TSSC REST API Call

(I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
about 24 hours ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Submitted

Protect Syslog Server panel with Dual Control

What happen when a hacker will change IP for RSYSLOG server. Logs are no longer transfered to syslog server and nobody is able to no longer see what happens at the Library. Please protect Syslog Server Panel with Dual Control
3 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
3 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Get a cartridge lifetime report of entire library inventory via REST API

Current mount history report is limited to 100 entries. Options to retrieve required information is available: REST API option /v1/dataCartridges/SYD197L9 contains cartridge lifetime, but customer needs to filter out required information. Since TS...
3 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
11 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Restrict access management based on OS type or agent type like VM Snapshot backup/SQL DB/ Oracle DB/ View etc

We can restrict to our platform team user based on their platform CI's/ Objects/Servers/DB etc. We can more effectively manage the RABAC solution for more granular level with additional option for user access management. With this user able to man...
1 day ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Include rpm package audispd-plugins into Storage Scale System bundle to improve audit logging capabilities.

In an regulated environment it is required to configure several audit rules at OS level, to be compliant. To forward the resulting audit events to syslog, it is required to install the rpm package audisp-plugins, which is not part of the current I...
2 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Secure Boot for IBM Spectrum Scale CNSA – A Necessity for Secure Cloud Infrastructures

1. Problem Statement and Urgency Current Requirement to Disable Secure Boot: IBM Spectrum Scale currently requires Secure Boot to be disabled to run on OpenShift. However, in modern cloud environments, especially in security-critical infrastructur...
11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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