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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    Automate vCenter certificate import into Data Protection for VMware GUI truststore during Installation/Upgrade

    Starting from Data Protection for VMware 8.1.23 and later, administrators must manually perform additional post-installation/post-upgrade configuration to establish trusted communication between the Data Protection for VMware vSphere GUI and VMwar...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Add SAS Enclosure Compatibility to the FS7600 and Above

    Many of our customers still require SAS HDD storage and cannot afford to go "All Flash." The lack of SAS enclosures on the large Flash Systems is becoming a technical problem that will limit our ability to sell Flash Systems to more budget conscio...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 10 Not under consideration

    Support modern SSO protocols

    TS4500 only supports LDAP & Kerberos, this request is for integration with SSO using modern protocols such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and/or OIDC.
    about 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    storage scale ECE -Increase vdisk number limitation per recovery group

    The core bottleneck comes from the ECE vdisk allocation model: every ECE filesystem consumes 2 vdisks per node. For our 12-node ECE cluster, creating one filesystem generates 24 vdisks. With the hard limit of 512 vdisks per recovery group, the max...
    12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    official statement that included software can't be updated independant

    We see many security issues concerning components of Storage Protect software. Most of them come from the Storage Protect Server (mostly JAVA and DB2). But the Storage Protect Client and TDP4VE are also affected (with log4j). And the same issues e...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Update DSCLI windows client with Developer Signatures for Win 11 Security

    The current DSCLI client will not install in Windows 11 environments secured with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, as the installer is not signed by a developer certificate. After moving to Windows 11, our storage admin team (4+ admins) is unable t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Support for HPE VM Essentials with FlashSystem (including PBR/HA)

    MSP considering HPE VM Essentials as VMware replacement, but need FlashSystem/SVC support
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Add API support for commands around upgrades

    There are a number of useful upgrade related commands that are not exposed to the API.
    24 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    include the reclaimable capacity in FlashSystem GUI or add a new column in SI to show the actual used capacity (without reclaimable capacity)

    Used capacity is not reported the same way wen you look at Storage Insight and FlashSystem GUI. SI include used capacity + reclaimable capacity. GUI shows Used capacity (without reclaimable). and Capacity details (Used Capacity with reclaimable) b...
    24 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Alert on increasing garbage data and/or failed or ineffectual garbage collection

    The Defender Data Protect version 7.3.1 will send alerts for pipelines that fail to complete, but the underlying cause of increased garbage and/or ineffectual garbage collection does not generate an alert. This means that the alerts that do trigge...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

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