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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    Completely deactivate LI REQ support

    Hello,In a multi-tenant environment, where each tenant individually manages their RACF configuration, it would be important to have the ability to completely deactivate LI REQ support via the Hydra (web) Management Interface (MI) or through a REST...
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

    Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    SI option to change GUI language (browser independent)

    There's no way to change SI's GUI language but to set one's browsers language accordingly. We can't change our browser language from German to English as that would break many of our workflows (time, date and number formats), still we would like t...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Support for persistent SCSI3 reservations for Multiple Path

    Support for persistent SCSI3 reservations for configurations that have multiple paths (via single IQN) to each FlashSystems node. Presently SCSI PR is allowed only when there is 1 host path per FlashSystem node for iSCSI host attach.
    20 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    NVMe/TCP Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

    NVMe/TCP is supported by OpenShift and IBM FlashSystem. However, the IBM Block CSI driver only supports iSCSI and FC. For IP attached FlashSystems customers want the IBM Block CSI driver to leverage NVMe/TCP protocol rather than iSCSI. Target envi...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Proxmox plugin for FlashSystem

    Plugin to improve current interop limitations with Proxmox (clustered host access, maintain VM snapshot ability, thin provisioning)
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    one or few click retry of failed objects on protection group

    Makes day-to-day administration of backups easier and increase overall success rate of backups
    2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

    Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

    In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

    Extension of the character limit for management class names

    A customer operate under a policy of assigning a unique management class to each node.By including the node name in the management class name, it is possible to identify which management class corresponds to which node.Currently, management class ...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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