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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    "dsmadmc -tab" should escape tabs in output fields

    The -tab option to dsmadmc is useful for passing output to other applications for parsing. Unfortunately, dsmadmc does not escape tabs in the output, which means that tools that expect tabs to be used only as column separators will incorrectly spl...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Select datastore per VMDK during restore

    When performing a restore it should be possible to select destination datastore for each VMDK-file.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 FCP-attached SCSI disks for 21CS VSEn customers

    Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6585326 for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer Informatio...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

    Bundle for IP quorum hosted on an IBM cloud VM

    Some customers do not wish to deploy a VM for the IP quorum on a third site, in their environment. Competition offers an option where the Quorum is hosted and running on a cloud-based VM. It would be a kind of bundle: IP Quorum app + small VM on I...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

    Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    Allow upgrades of GPFS even if kernel module loading is disabled

    The recent increase in frequency of Linux kernel vulnerabilities provides an incentive to block the loading of kernel modules until the next reboot using the kernel.modules_disabled sysctl. However, this setting clashes with the GPFS RPM scripts, ...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Walk in the park - step forward and back in performance graphs

    Ease of use. To easily compare todays graph with yesterdays.
    3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Better handling of Cohesity agent certificates

    Remove unnecessary alerts.
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Protect Client Installation/upgrade in Windows environment Windows System should not reboot to take effect

    This is regarding a customer query related to the IBM Storage Protect BA Client on the Windows platform. When an end user installs or performs a version upgrade of the Storage Protect BA Client, the installation process currently triggers a Window...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

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