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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    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data Prote...
    5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

    The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Enable file and folder-level recovery of objects from AIX systems archived on IBM Storage Protect by using the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect object agent S3 interface

    Currently, file and folder-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archives AIX objects to IBM Storage Protect using its S3 tape storage interface. We request an enhancement to the...
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Volume and Host move between partitions (split partition)

    We need the possibility to move volumes/LUNs and Hosts between partitions on the same system. The current Partition Design is very static and gives limited flexibility. This feature can be relevant if you want to split your current volume/LUN/host...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    Add a host to multiple host clusters

    It would be nice it I could add a host to multiple different host clusters. You can currently map a volume to multiple host clusters and it works. The reason for this request is to reduce the risk of human errors. Lets say that we have 3 different...
    21 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Provide helper to determine metadata size

    We have a GNR cluster with > 650 million files, distributed over two filesystems. All disks are DataAndMetadata. Policy runs and mmbackup are taking very long. One speedup suggestion of the GPFS support was to use explicit metadata storage. Unf...
    21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted
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    Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

    Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

    Proxmox support for PBHA

    In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Support for VMware v9.0

    Support for VMware Cloud foundation v9.0
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Submitted

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