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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    Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

    Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Enhance RestAPI to allow for control of AOS

    AOS is a mission critical remote support tool. Activation of AOS creates a threat vector therefore it should only ever be activated as needed and closed when support if fulfilled. Given the need for support could occur anytime, and the staff avail...
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Request to add a feature that allows administrators to check the amount of data stored in each bucket or user/user group.

    When providing Deep Archive like a cloud service, it is necessary to check the usage amount for each user with administrator commands and charge according to capacity, as well as issue warnings for “excessive use.”
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    TDP support for Exchange SE

    Latest Version TDP 8.1.21 only supports up to Exchange 2016/2019, which is going end-of-life 14. Oct 2025.
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    When doing reclamation, recalls should go to other pool copy in 2nd library during reclamation

    This helps reclamation to go much quicker, not being paused by recalls on the same tape!
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Under review

    Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

    use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Defender Data Protect - File/Folder-level recovery of AIX file-based backups from tape-based external targets IBM Storage Protect

    Current Limitation: Currently, file-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is either unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archive AIX objects using IBM Storage Protect. We request an enhancement of IBM Storage Defender ...
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Defender data Protect KVM Support

    Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

    The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

    Support for Hyperswap - Linux on Z.

    Hello Development and Product management teams. I would like to suggest an enhancement to the DS8000 related to the high availability solution, Hyperswap. We are seeing an increasing number of customers adopting Linux on Z, and one of these custom...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

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