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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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SP Server certificate management

Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Submitted

Use larger containers for NonDedup data

We have about 100k of small 64M containers that stores Non Dedup data(one SP instance). Other types of data gets stored in containers up to 10G in size. NonDedup data should be stored in larger files of 1G or maybe even 10G. This would reduce file...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Collect SAN portnames/labels of FC ports

we have lots of customers using insights for SAN monitoring and it would be very helpful to collect portnames, all customers label the ports with the device connected and that label/portname tell us what is wrong when using alert policies, not jus...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Reporting Capacity Usage on volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots

We support many companies and need to be able to report the front-end usage and total capacity usage being used by them. We would like a report that captures volumes in hyperswap, 3-site, 2-site and volume group snapshots. It would be ideal if we ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ransomware Threat Detection for IBM Ceph

IBM FlashSystem with FCM4 has RTD. Defender has Sensors (in the application file-system). We should have some capabilities to detect and report threats in Ceph as well.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

Add Applications to REST API

I would like applications to be added to the REST API. That way I can get metrics for Applications I setup in Storage Insights Pro. In particular, I want to be able to create dashboards in Grafana for Applications.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Detect and delete previous snapshot operation under Vcenter or mark the backup failure for corresponding Virtual Machine

Its useful to avoid reach out the maximum capacity of Vcenter snapshots. SPP must be able to detect the situation, where there are a lot of unsuccessful removed and consolidated snapshot, have to stop the operation and mark the Backup as failure f...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted