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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Support Storage Scale Stretch cluster with metroDR of FusionSDS

IBM always push SDS approach. Giving customers the chance to use Storage Scale SW version as Active/ative storage ( stretch cluster) on fusion SDS will open us lots of opportunities
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 4 Future consideration

pseudo admin to administer and manage the box/users without access to destructive commands

We would like to have the ability to create a pseudo admin userid which has the ability access and manage all settings on the ds8ks and perform user account management but without all the other powerful options / dscli commands commonly used by th...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Upgrade Storage Archive EE cluster(10 nodes+2 libraries) node by node without stopping migrate and recall service

Baidu Netdisk had bought lots of tape libraries to store their cool data. Their solution is Storage Scale + Storage Archive EE+ TS4500. Recently they met an Archive bug, and IBM EE team had found the root cause and provided a fix, Baidu Netdisk ha...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

DS8K Logical Configuration backup & restore functionality

Hello,I would like to ask to implement IBM as a vendor supported way to create backup about DS8K storage's logical configuration, with option to restore it.The configuration backup should be possible to be created from both DSCLI and DS8000 Storag...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Support for ERP SAP HANA for RHEL 9 on Power LE

"Currently, only Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1.11 exists, which is more than two years old, and supports RHEL 8 on Power Little Endian. However, support for SAP HANA on RHEL 9 on Power is now necessary."
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Under review

IBM CDM and IBM Sentinel with central management across multiple sites

Most european customers running a separation between primary and backup data centers. IBM CopyDataManagement + IBM Sentinel should be able to work and manage SnapShots across multiple sites. IDEA and REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT An application-consiste...
9 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Increase limits and remove restrictions for NVMe over Fiber Channel

Increase the limit of "NVMe over Fiber Channel hosts per I/O group = 16", (maybe to double that) and REMOVE the Volume Mobility restrictions #5: "SCSI only. Fibre Channel and iSCSI supported. NVMe not supported." IBM has been touting the usefulnes...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Virtual Host Style addressing support for CES S3

Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

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