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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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REST-API request for GET a list of defined LDAP Users/Groups and their roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query detailed permissions of authenticated users. Which LDAP Users/Groups are defined ...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Delivered

Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Delivered

make applydrivesoftware site-aware

'applydrivesoftware' should honour site-awareness, in particular in HyperSwap topologies and change its default "all in one shot" behaviour to a "paced site by site" one.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base (& SVC)

A Customer with a very large SVC installation wants to have vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base for his SVC environment: Handling & administration without many components
over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Need HCI Fusion Regional DR support for ODF

We (large bank in Canada) is running CP4D with IBM Storage Fusion (ODF) software on-prem in a VMWare environment. We are investigating different Openshift in a BOX solutions to run our CP4D environment. We reviewed the IBM HCI Fusion but realized ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion Delivered

IBM Spectrum Archve EE - One failed candidate (e.g. deleted) for migration causes whole migration task fail, space allocated, migration must be repeated

Migration task should finish successfully even any individual file fails (reason of failure could be that user deleted of changed file after start of migration), it helps to save drive time so no new re-migration is needed. If migration fails, spa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Archive Delivered

Multi-cluster Hyperswap for Spectrum Virtualize

Current Hyperswap implementation exists within a single Spectrum Virtualize cluster. An outage of the entire cluster is possible, thereby offering a lesser degree of availability
almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered

Send data using Call Home cloud service FS9100

The problem is that I cant configure the Send data using Call Home cloud service to use a proxy to send data.The Flash system is trying to connect directly to 129.42.56.189, 129.42.54.189, and 129.42.60.189 via port 443https://www.ibm.com/support/...
about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

HPO to support InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to have HPO support for deployment on InfiniBand infrastructure.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Delivered