IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add remote authentication/LDAP groups for acceptable users in dual control

    Currently, DS8K dual control only works for local accounts. As an enterprise has multiple security requirements, such as centrally administered access accounts, LDAP is used to authenticate into the storage devices. However, dual control does not ...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Read/Write-Test Button per MI for Cloud/S3 storage behind TS7700

    The biggest challenge when setting up cloud storage behind a VTS is the network connection between the two devices. That is why testing and verifying proper functionality are essential for the person setting up the system on a VTS. On the one hand...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    S3 support for Cloudera CDP

    We require IBM Storage Scale to fully support S3A that is required by Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) 7.3.X.
    10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhance Ansible CSM Collection to accept Personal Access Tokens instead of Password

    CSM has a very nice python module and Ansible collection. The python module seems to be more flexible than the Ansible collection in the authentication options. The CSM API must use a token generated from the csmcli, or a Personal Access Token or ...
    19 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    Create at least a warning event for error messages relating the creation of SafeGuarded Copies

    My customers have a FS5300 and 55TB of SGC-protected space. We considered doing snapshots every half an hour using Copy Services Manager. We found out, that the bitmap is too small to handle this. We could see some errors in CSM, but not an event ...
    19 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Provide IBM-supported tool to migrate Retention Sets, including all associated metadata and retention policies, from IBM Storage Protect to IBM Data Defender (Cohesity), enabling complete decommissioning of legacy Storage Protect environments.

    Product Enhancement Request: Retention Set Migration Tool Title Retention Set Migration from IBM Storage Protect to IBM Data Defender (Cohesity) Why is this useful? Many organizations use IBM Storage Protect retention sets to meet regulatory and b...
    28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    code download checking integrity

    Customer Audit and compliance requirements are driving the need for independently verifiable evidence that firmware, Licensed Internal Code (LIC), and related system code have not been altered. While IBM firmware includes internal integrity valida...
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Improve display and reporting for SAN based backups of IBM Flash arrays

    The SAN based backup identifies a disk pool to be protected. The disk pool consists of several disk volumes (18 in our case). Currently the UI shows the backup of this in a protection group and all 18 volumes are backed up as a part of the protect...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Improve certificate lifecycle visibility in IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore

    IBM Storage Fusion should provide better visibility into the certificates and TLS secrets used by the Backup & Restore service. In production environments, Backup & Restore depends on several internal certificates and Kubernetes secrets. W...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Better multi-tenancy support User ID wise

    Hello, It would be great if the TS7700 provide improved multi-tenancy support for user IDs. For example, the ability to partition Hydra (Web) MI access so that individual users or clients can only view and manage their own “area” within the cluste...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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