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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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Allow customer to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level

Allow customers to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level (admin, operator, etc) … The customer would like to adminstir the groups on th eDS8k exactly how it works in the Storage Manager GUI for the z/OS.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Enhance mmshutdown confirm shutdown logic to make it ctrl-c resistend.

We had a maintenance window and want to update a storage-cluster that own 20 FS for native K8s and OCP-Clusters. We see if a additionally mmshutdown are happen and the Admin make on the prompt a ctl-c the shutdown process are working together and ...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Storage Scale - Rest API for file system defragmentation

With the rapid growth in demand for AIGC and autonomous driving, our GPFS file systems are getting larger and larger. We know that disk fragmentation within a file system is an unavoidable condition. As time goes by, the space occupied by file sys...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Add DarkMode to the GUI

I suffer with eye strain and light sensitivity and it seems like supporting a dark mode is pretty straight forward.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow multiple targets in an AFM-fileset (AFM-S3 only perhaps)

It would be good if we could have data coming from multiple sources in an AFM fileset. Perhaps a client has data that needs to be presented from NFS and S3. The application would have to talk to two different filesets to get data. The current use ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

API to change the admin password on DS8000

Since they're integration issues with CyberArk and DS8K it would be great for clients to able to change admin user password with API.
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

IAM functionality via REST API

I’d like to raise our concern on Storage Protect product violating one of our internal guidelines by being incapable of providing required service. It is expected to manage Storage Protect administrative accounts from enterprise internal Identity ...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Call home Support Report

When you go to call home cloud facility to view the z Machine and we have the report tab to see the channel & Adapters but I could not able to see the DS8k. if you have create like z Machine then it would be helpful. Kindly find the attached d...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Support for Windows Containers hosted by Openshift Virtualization VM running in Fusion HCI

Windows containers today are supported by Windows Machine Config Operator on AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix and vSphere. Working with clients looking for Fusion HCI as the Openshift platform, this Idea requests Fusion HCI to support running Windows Cont...
5 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Data integrity check per dasd volume

Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review