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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Call home for Storage Defender

IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
8 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

REST-API request for managing certificates

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for comp...
3 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

Related to SafeGuarded Copy on the DS8000. SGC backup copies CANNOT be deleted. Today, a person with adminstrator rights can still log on and delete off valid SGC backup copies. Customers have been asking for this capability to be removed.

This feature is required to ensure that SGC is totally immutable.
12 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to monitor Tape devices

Customer would like the ability to monitor Tape devices in Storage Insights
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage

Customer would like the ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage in Storage Insights
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Performance tables to have a Totals row at bottom to sum the values

On all of the performance tables, it would be nice to have a "Totals" row at bottom to sum the values of each column.
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

GUI change of units how quota is set up

because we need this feature for better daily operation of capacities...
16 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Ability to extend/prevent expiration of a single backup or archiving functionality

Sometimes it is needed to make a permanent backup of a good known state of a system, an archive of a sort that will not be deleted by expiration. There should be a way to lock a single backup/prevent its standard expiration and deletion.
16 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

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