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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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Server support for Red Hat 8

Spectrum Protect server needs to run on latest Red Hat Enterpise Linux editions 8 and 8.1.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Need online password validation option for Spectrum Protect database backup

The Spectrum Protect database backups need password to be specified to include master encryption key along with database backup. However, there is no option to validate the password when spectrum protection instance is up and running. The only way...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

TS7700 Set LVOL to non used state for removing a TMC range

The customer wants a way to set a volser or a range of volsers to a state that will prevent the tape from being mounted as a scratch in preparation to remove the volser or range of volsers from the TMC.
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Display more detailed information in the Storage Insights Ticket dashboard

SI is a great pan of glass to Monitor, Manage and track issue on storage environment.When using the Device Ticket Dashboard, user see only the ticket number ( RCMS, RETAIN , Salesforce) but detailed information are missing.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Add Year to the date/time stamp in the reports.

Requirement to have the year in the time stamp, to allow for auditing trail of when the report was generated. Currently only the month and the day is provided in the report.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Add Spectrum Scale with SSH key in Spectrum Control

Currently Spectrum Scale can be added only with password authorization. Requet is to implement SSH key authorization. Once user password is changed in Spectrum Scale , we lose collecting data until password is changed in Spectrum Control according...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Planned for future release