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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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Enable Full Export and Correlation of Affected Files and Alerts in DMS Anti-Ransomware UI

Currently, when an anomaly or ransomware detection event occurs within the DMS Security Anti-Ransomware interface, the “Affected Files” page does not provide a supported mechanism to export or download the complete list of affected files. At this ...
24 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Support Assistant - Remote Support - Automatic Token re-generation

Be able to set an automatic time for re-generating the support assistant token
about 4 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

chsra command should enforce minimum time out Vs Optional

Allow customer to define a hard limit for idle time out Vs being optional and relying on an engineer to set the appropriate time out for each session that is opened.
about 4 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Enable datalock for CLOUD devc

As an ex-IBMer and a TSM specialist who joined an ongoing project for a major client in Luxembourg, I am particularly committed to demonstrating the effectiveness and resilience of this solution.However, I have observed that database backups ( DBS...
about 5 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Enhance security tied to DataPlatform for Cloud Azure deployment

Currently, as a part of the Cohesity Data Protect DataPlatform for Cloud Azure deployment workflow, DMS uses the input Azure subscription information to deploy cluster resources. As a part of the deployment, a temporary Azure storage account is cr...
about 24 hours ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Support QLC drives in ECE

Currently,SSS 6000 is support TLC+QLC tiering solution. ECE didn't announce the similar feature. The trends is mixed TLC+QLC in one cluster as tiering solution. The shortage of TLC flash drives has also driven the adoption of tiered storage archit...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Updating MI Write-Protect Mode

Enable the ability to do a copy to clusters when adding excluded categories when setting up Write-Protect mode. This would make it easier for the cluster to setup instead of having to go cluster by cluster. This is especially important when you ha...
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Single virtual S3 endopoint for Multi-Site IBM Storage Deep Archive

Within a Storage Deep Archive architecture deployed across multiple geographically separate sites, S3 clients should be able to access the service through a single resilient logical endpoint, regardless of which physical site is active. In the cur...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Submitted

SI option to change GUI language (browser independent)

There's no way to change SI's GUI language but to set one's browsers language accordingly. We can't change our browser language from German to English as that would break many of our workflows (time, date and number formats), still we would like t...
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Add guided diagnostics for IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore issues

IBM Storage Fusion should provide a guided diagnostics function for Backup & Restore problems directly in the Fusion UI. When Backup & Restore components fail, administrators often need to manually inspect OpenShift resources such as pods,...
21 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review