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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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DS8K - Single Sign ON (SSO) with OIDC

Add SSO support via OIDC to externalize authentication and enable multi factor authentication on the DS8K HMC
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

ALL volume view

As a spectrum control user there's the option to view ALL volumes without drilling to individual storage systems, This would be a very useful addition so Storage insights
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Future consideration

Add dual stack networking to IBM Fusion HCI automated installation

Currently the IBM Fusion HCI automated installation only allows for single stack IPv4 networking, and nothing else. Other choices that are supported by OpenShift are IPv6 single stack network, or dual stack networking with IPv4 <AND> IPv6. T...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Create a REST API for the DS8910 to Discard/Delete acquired Token

Currently there is no way to logout from a REST API session on the DS8910. This leaves authorization tokens until the expiration period expires enabling them to be used subsequently by another process or user. This will tighten the REST API securi...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Implementation of allowedTopologies

If you have a Openshift pod which wants to mount a GPFS filesystem, you need to manually, on each namespace specify a specific node selector policy to run your pod on a worker node with a deamon which has remote mount or it is a part of a internal...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

Support both Ubuntu and Redhat upgrades through open source ansible scale roles with same repository

Support both Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles, also support Redhat /Sles Yum repository to support storage scale deployment..
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

CES NFS - identify client stale I/O errors

Following case - TS018623841.Client NFS when working with several NFS clients - each mounting different CES NFS node , loading python modules - get Stale I/O in random steps. 1. Same python is used through the same script.2. We use autofs to mount...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration