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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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Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender 1 Planned for future release

Improve DS8000 Rest API capabilities

REST API the current trend for automation. It provides a flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use way to retrieve and automate tasks that can be accessed from any platform or programming language. Enhancing Rest API on DS8000 will enable end users to s...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Support Scale Client running on VMware ESXi 8.x

According to the support page, VMware ESX 7.x is supoorted but not ESXi8.x . Table 72. VMware support matrix on VM guest https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#virtual also please provide GDS(GPUDirect Storage ) support informatio...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Allow IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed directly on ESS Appliance Family

When performing backup operations on ESS using MMbackup and IBM Spectrum Protect, the current architecture needs to have a Backup Proxy in order to configure the IBM Spectrum Protect and MMbackup. In this configuration, MMbackup currently forces t...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Fusion B/R Support for Vanilla Kubernetes

Add support to backup and restore Vanilla Kubernetes into Storage Fusion SDS & HCI.
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Improve zOS host IP connection loss detection and failover behavior

There have been incidents in the field showing the current design of CSM z/OS host IP connection loss detection and failover to redundant active host connection is significantly delayed to 15-20 minutes. This may happen especially when the connect...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Pak Adopt Online Backup/Restore with Storage Fusion & Recipe

Online and non-disruptive backup and restore of mission-critical and enterprise applications such as Cloud Pak for Data is now available (with CP4D v4.5 and onward) using application-aware recipes and IBM Storage Fusion software. Other Cloud Paks ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2

Rebalance client nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to transparently rebalance nodes between multiple IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance concerns. Currently, IBM Storage Protect, unfortunately, lacks th...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Enhancement request for DS8K GUI/ESSNI to show end-to-end I/O latency for CKD volumes

As mentioned in the PMH, the I/O response time (System Latency (ms)) provided by the DSGUI of the DS8870 and DS8880 doesn't show correct end-to-end latency in CKD volumes environment, but unfortunately it is current restriction. It is same on DS89...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8900 SYSLOG does not log severity

Even though events can be sent to syslog, it is useless because it does not include the severity (information, warning, error), which makes it very hard/impossible to automate.
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review