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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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Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

A seamless support for custom namespace

Currently, even though Fusion supports custom namespace, the procedure requires manual steps. For example, FusionServiceDefinition has to be patched to reflect the correct custom namespace.
8 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Implement the cancel reclaim command

At this moment, it's not possible to cancel a reclamation process through ISP scripting. The only option you have is to do this outside of the server with OS scripts. These scripts first have to retrieve the process number of running reclaim proce...
8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Need better job and resource management feature to avoid multiple simultaneous job start upon SPP restart after unexpected outage

The current IBM Storage Protect Plus design makes that, upon appliance restart after an unexpected outage, all pending jobs are started simultaneously. This can overwhelm the appliance available resouces if numerous jobs are pending. As an example...
15 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
29 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Option for consistently following symbolic links in AFM

AFM's default behavior updates symlinks without fetching the target file at the home site. This behavior can cause applications that are relying on that symlink to break. We are requesting a feature that allows AFM to follow symlinks if the target...
11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Planned for future release

Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Provide last login time / date via DSCLI lookup

This is a requirement for audit purposes to be able to provide a list of users with last login date via a feed from the DSCLI. Currently you can get this information via the GUI but we can't get it via the DSCLI commands which is a requirement in ...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration