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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    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

    Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

    We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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

    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

    Add the ability to specify the key serving certificate when adding new key servers to the key server list via the WebUI

    I am performing an upgrade/migration of our SKLM 4.2 environment to SKLM 5.0. The key serving certificate for 4.2 is different from the key serving certificate that is being used by the 5.0 environment. On older Storwize/Flash Systems firmware, wh...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    When Safeguarded Copies are in place it should not be possible to delete a Mdisk (should be a part of TPI)

    At the moment, when you are using Safeguarded Copy, you can delete a VDisk of\and MDisk (even if TPI enabled). When deleting one or more Mdisks, Safeguarded Copy won't help you. So there must be a way to prevent deleting Mdisk(s) when SGC is in pl...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Few IP Quorum ideas: Appliance, updated OS/Java matrix, IP Quorum application updates

    1. Appliance. It would be much easier to deploy IP Qourum as an appliance (for example OVF) or an ISO with simple wizard to install full OS and application. Currently end user gets JAR file which has to be deployed somewhere and services (Windows ...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    gskcrypt64-8.0.55 rpm packages require invalid binary files /bin/ln and /bin/sh

    For a long time RHEL has provided both /bin/X and /usr/bin/X even though the packages only install /usr/bin/X This is true for RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9 The gskcrypt64 package should have been changed a long time ago to require /usr/bin/X components ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Under review

    Allow to the replace command to reclaim tapes in parallel

    Hi, From time to time we need to run the "eeadm tape replace" command to replace from the tape library, some tapes that the Storage Archive detect some read or write actions and decide that this tape is not healthy and it has to be removed and rep...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

    Eliminate divisive language from your products

    We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

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