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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM SP4C - Automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process

Customer has requested the ability for IBM SP4C to automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process. While the current restore functionality works, it does not automatically restores tabs to their previous state, requiring users t...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 1 Under review

Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

Two-person Integrity for Safeguarded Tape in the RestAPI

Because of our Safeguarded Tape implementation we see many gaps in the security of the current ts4500-java-cli.  As stated with dev the goal is to implement all the security requirements on Rest API.  These changes include addi...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Improve the CSM behaviour to find free session IDs on the hardware

At the moment CSM only checks the GM masters running on the Ds8000 and their state. It is not checked which LSS sessions are configured but are not members of a running Global Mirror. In situations where the DS8k hardware is managed by different t...
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

SNMP monitoring fileset quota (block/files)

Customer want to monitor via SNMP all the alerts that the system can generate like:fileset quota block (soft/hard)fileset quota files (soft/hard)Storage Pool Metadata block/inodes Storage Poo Data block/inodesand all other event that the system is...
17 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Allow IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed directly on ESS Appliance Family

When performing backup operations on ESS using MMbackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, the current architecture needs to have a Backup Proxy in order to configure the IBM Spectrum Protect and MMbackup. In this configuration, MMbackup currently forces t...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review