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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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IBM CDM should be able to work with more than one Network Card to perform backup and restore operations

Customer has hosts and storage subsystems placed in distinct networks. We configured a second NIC in the CDM server but once this interface comes UP, all scheduled backup fails, the reason is that they can't find the target hosts, I wonder some ro...
30 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
10 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Requesting Storage Defender Development team to expedite development of support for Defender Sensors for Aix Os

In most of the engagements in select accounts in India , there is at least a 50 % prevalence of Aix hosts , I suspect the case to be similar for multiple accounts in ISA & APAC region. While currently we have sensors for Rhel 9 , Suse & Ub...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 6 Future consideration

Support for AWS Outposts with FlashSystem Storage.

Currently NetApp and Pure Storage seem to be the only vendors which do support this on-premises delivery model for Amazon. If we had support for this as part of the FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize portfolio, our Business Partners would have an IBM ...
11 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Ability to manually exclude specific cipher suites for SSH

We've been chatting to support desk about the support for disabling/excluding specific cipher suites for SSH. As geographical perspectives (and thus necessities) could potentially differ from one another, we'd like to opt for a feature request, fo...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
3 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Is a defect

Add the possibility for SP4VE to be able to force the format of the VM drives, during restores, to EAGER ZEROED.

(See case number TS016942043 for details) Even though VM disks are formatted as thick eager zeroed, SP4VE formats them as lazy zeroed during restores. This causes problems on the VCenter's end and additional work for the VM administrators.

Call home for Storage Defender

IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
5 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration