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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    Request for Spectrum Scale to support Redhat SSSD as 3rd Authentication Method

    Request for Spectrum Scale to support RedHat Systems Security Software Daemon (SSSD) as a third authentication method. Salesforce # TS001343971
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Add support for Data Protect to Archive to Google "Archive" Tier

    Lowers cost for long-term retention of data.
    5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add Fusion Backup & Restore in OpenShift Dedicated (OSD) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Platform Support Matrix

    IBM Fusion Software documentation normally adds separate entries/rows to the platform support matrix (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/fusion-software/2.9.x?topic=services-fusion-platform-support-matrix) for managed-OpenShift platforms. The current mat...
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Assignments panel needs to enhanced to display the ip address or WWN or switch name or at least the system UUID

    We also are unable to use Assignments to spread the workload because all the switches are listed with their Chassis Name, and we have a lot of switches of the same kind so its impossible to differentiate between which device is located where. Woul...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Possibility to create a synthetic backup full in SPP with OSSM and vSnap at any time

    For SLA reasons (law or company regulations) it is necessary that my BASE backup is NEVER older than 30 days!
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

    temp. autologout customization in the SPP GUI

    When pulling support logs in larger environments, the default autologout in the spp gui of currently 30min is exceeded. however, the time to create the log collection is much longer than 30min. this prevents the forwarding to support cases. a way ...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Future consideration

    S3 Object Agent, Slow Metadata Retrieval

    When querying metadata from the S3 object agent, e.g. requests against filesystem structure, dir list, deleting expired data/snapshots, response time is very slow (50min+). This causes applications (e.g. ElasticSearch) which use the API to throw e...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus: Replication Job ends in error when replicating only MSSQL transaction logs

    Based on our SLA with the customer we need to synchronize SQL log backups to the secondary vSnap server ( with the replication job) every two hours. The replication job after the backup job is always successful, because volumes for data+log backup...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Display more detailed information in the Storage Insights Ticket dashboard

    SI is a great pan of glass to Monitor, Manage and track issue on storage environment.When using the Device Ticket Dashboard, user see only the ticket number ( RCMS, RETAIN , Salesforce) but detailed information are missing.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Introduce COPYONCE functionality for CSM Global Mirror devices, similar to that within GDPS

    I am writing to submit a request for enhancement to the Copy Services Manager (CSM) software. We believe that the addition of COPYONCE functionality, similar to that within GDPS, to CSM would greatly simplify the management of Copysets. Specifical...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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