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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    Add an intelligent Recipe Generator to the IBM Storage Fusion UI

    IBM Storage Fusion should provide an intelligent Recipe Generator directly in the Fusion UI. One of the greatest strengths and most valuable capabilities of IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore is its ability to process recipes, enabling applic...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Introduce new option for replication to allow replication to process new data and backlog data separate and when process backlog data ( replicating_objects) we need to introduce tape optimization

    Customer has > 500million objects on tape sitting on replicating_objects which doesn't have replication copy on target. In order to catch up the backlog, we may need to introduce new options to allow replication to process new data and backlog ...
    11 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Automatic Recovery Enhancement for CSM Sessions After Temporary Switch Failures

    In our environment, temporary switch port/SAN issues frequently cause CSM replication sessions to move into a Severe state and suspend MM/GM pairs.Even after the switch issue is resolved, CSM does not automatically clear the error or recover the s...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Add Iogrp Memory (FlashCopy, Replication, Mirror) as a Capacity item, tracked over time

    The Iogrp memory is a limited resource on the flash system (I understand it will continue to be even once memory paging is added), that impacts the system's ability to do basic functions, like taking a snapshot. We should track this over time, so ...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Warning message needed for deleting any data storage in object lock storage in cloud in IBM storage Protect server

    Current behavior: ISP allows deletion actions (e.g., DELETE FILESPACE) even when target data is stored in a cloud container storage pool with Object Lock. Risk: Admins can mistakenly remove catalog references while the cloud objects remain undel...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

    We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    export/import for host configurations

    The existing feature to export and import a system's configuration does not include hosts. A feature to export all hosts (including their WWPNs) and import them on another system/cluster would be very helpful.
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Fusion HCI skip version upgrade (2.10 to 2.14)

    We request IBM Fusion Engineering to evaluate and provide a supported online upgrade path that allows: IBM Fusion HCI 2.10.x → IBM Fusion HCI 2.14.x without requiring intermediate upgrades through every minor release. If technical limitations prev...
    22 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

    Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    'Storage System Maintenance Information' view: show more service details in 'Earliest Service Expiration' column to get a quicker overview.

    We discussed this esp in context of Expert Care Support - show 'Expert Care Basic - Active' , 'Expert Care Advanced - Active' or 'Expert Care Premium - Active' instead of just 'Expert Care - Active'. This would help clients with a large SI instanc...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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