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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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Add information about the using ciphers for TS7700 and provide a possibility to exclude dedicate ciphers

The security needs in companies are very different. Sometimes it is necessary to know what kind of chiphers the TS77xx used.Therefor it would be good to have a display for the possible and used ciphers.Add on it would be good to have a possibility...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

TDP support for Exchange SE

Latest Version TDP 8.1.21 only supports up to Exchange 2016/2019, which is going end-of-life 14. Oct 2025.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

Add the ability to use more"custom tag" fields with a tag manager

We are all familiar with the Custom Tag1, Custom Tag2, and Custom Tag3 fields but many of us find ourselves needing more tags for advanced filtering or for an ideal place to keep up with common attributes. The new GUI seems to have this as a place...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Create PBR relationship from Replication ports - and not from Management Port 1only.

We are replacing Netapp Storage at customer which has 2 sites. They are doing replication between the 2 sites on dedicated layer2 network. We have FS5300, with 2 ports dedicated to replication , why the PBR must be configure from the primary manag...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Implementing purging algorithms

Protection > Recoveries view will not be purged, only some detail information for recovery tasks older than a month.
12 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Increased detail on TS4500 log events.

Customer has requested the TS4500 log events be modified to reflect a higher level of granularity. The specific ask is to make the TS4500 log details similar (if not identical) to the logs produced by the TS4300. The customer appreciates the level...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Under review

add a DMS portal for GEOs other than AWS-US.

The DMS portal of Defender is currently only available in AWS-US. For customers in Europe that have to deal with DORA, NIS2, GDPR and other topics find it hard or impossible to accept a critical application running outside of EU. Please roll-out a...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 3 Planned for future release

For tickets that are showing on Storage Insights have a hyperlink to the IBM ticket

This will eliminate the need to copy and paste the ticket number into the IBM support site. The hyperlink will take you there eliminating the copy paste process as well as saving time
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted