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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    Storage Scale Recompilation Requirement Post-RHEL Kernel Upgrade

    Request IBM to remove the need for binary kernel module recompilation after RHEL kernel updates for IBM Storage Scale. This requirement adds operational overhead and complexity to patching and automation processes. While RHEL provides stable ABIs ...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Improvement of SP command 'q job'

    Hello IBM Here is my idea: It will be useful to be able to improve the command 'q job' such that it is possible to use the stgrule name as parameter, to just see the jobs for that particular stgrule. We are using many different stgrules, and today...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Citibank: Add 2 more EKMs entries on the data at rest page on the MI so that we can add 2 IP’s and Ports for SKLM and 2 IP’s and Ports for GKLM (Different Key Servers for Tape and Disk)

    CITI is planning to leverage external encryption for their TS7700 systems as part of their long-term data security strategy. Currently, the Management Interface (MI) on TS7700 only allows for the configuration of a single set of IP addresses and p...
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

    Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI. Use case: their SLA’s include taking an immutable snapshot and keeping it for x days (up to a year), immediately after certain changes. Examples in...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Library initialization at SP Server startup needs improvement

    When a Storage Protect server is starting up, it is querying the inventory of each tape library defined to this Storage Protect server. the Storage Protect server is using a 256KB buffer to store the inventory information returned by the tape libr...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Add FIPS compliance to the tape library to enable Key Manager integration with the IBM Guardium product.

    Guardium uses FIPS by default. Without FIPS compliance the Diamondback library acts as a lowest common denominator for Guardium forcibly weakening the security stance of all products using the same Guardium instance e.g. Spectrum Scale. A minimum ...
    6 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Under review

    Roadmap to integrate Storage Defender with Fusion

    As clients move from VMWare to OpenShift, the workloads are more data intensive and mission critical. Fusion backup and recovery is market leading for container workloads. OpenShift VM backup and recovery is supported with guest agents from IBM St...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 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.
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Interactive performance charts

    My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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