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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Remove SP server startup dependency on availability of LDAP URL and implement recurring probing of LDAP access

Server does not restart when unable to inialize LDAP directory service. Moreover it seems that no recurring probing of LDAP access is currently factored into the SP server code, therefor no alerting will take place in case of loss/failed LDAP conn...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode

Update DS8000 Red Books to document encryption algorithm & mode e.g. AES-256-XTS
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Customer wants to extend the time between node upgrades with the SVC

Customer had multiple servers go down during their last upgrade. They would like the time between node upgrades to be tunable instead of the standard 30 minutes in length. Ideally they feel that if they had more time they could complete the valida...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Storage Insights Improvements for Support Contract Reporting

We would like to see improvements in how Maintenance Contracts are being reported in Storage Insights in order to better keep an eye on and be proactive about renewals and coverage issues.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

SNMP V3 support for SVC

Customers are requesting that SNMP be upgraded to V3.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

GUI backup and restore option of library configuration

The only option to save (and eventually restore) the library configuration database today is to use the TS4500 CLI. It is Java based and Java is not allowed in some client installations because of security concerns. Moreover, in a TS7700 environme...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Easy access to SVC portstats needed

By architecture the SAN plays an important role for a reliable function of Spectrum Virtualize. Monitoring of SAN counters is crucial for every Administrator to get a clear picture of the health of all communications within. Even we are often faci...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Chane email and LDAP server configuration from IP to hostname

Email and LDAP servers can only be configured by entering their IP address. In case of server lifecycle, connection fails.If hostnames (and aliases) could be configured, this wouldn't be a problem anymore.Applies to all SVC and Storwize products.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Enable smnp test trap from SVC

Normally, when configuring snmp traps, there is a possibility to send a test trap. Such functionality does not exist in SVC.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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