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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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Improved method for applying the company self signed certificate as well as annually updating for governance purposes

Customer has been trying to apply a company signed certificate but currently has to go through the process twice to properly apply the signed certificate. This process must also include the ability to easily update the certificate for governance p...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Power off enhancement for node/system

By moving the Power Off feature to service, we dont run into the "issue" with only local "power on" possible. Here we face different admins who can power off a node in troubleshooting not really thinking about that it can only be powered on using ...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Please bring back show hosts by host ports in the hosts menu

Because its a pain having to view host properties then selecting the port definitions tab every time
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Add information about the using ciphers for TS7700 and provide a possibility to exclude dedicate ciphers

The security needs in companies are very different. Sometimes it is necessary to know what kind of chiphers the TS77xx used.Therefor it would be good to have a display for the possible and used ciphers.Add on it would be good to have a possibility...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Integration of a detailed, consolidated and exportable reporting feature for Fusion B&R across hub and spokes

I would like to suggest integrating detailed reporting into Fusion Backup & Restore, which can be exported as a CSV file, for example. In the Fusion UI and in OpenShift, some information about the applications on the hub cluster can be found u...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Sentinel Integration into Defender

IBM Storage Sentinel must be functionally integrated with IBM Storage Defender, specifically with the Data Resiliency Service (DRS). This integration should allow Sentinel's ransomware detection results to be consumed directly by DRS, enabling aut...
7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Ability to Trigger Customized Client-Initiated Call Home via DSCLI or API

As a DS8000 user with numerous DS8000s in our environment, we do not currently have an automated method to trigger an IBM Health Check on one or more of our DS8000 systems. Due to security concerns, we do not currently have IBM Storage Insights im...
17 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Oracle on zLinux compatibility for IBM CDM

A client currently uses IBM FlashSystem in a VMware environment and holds a license for IBM Copy Data Management (CDM). However, they plan to migrate their primary workloads to IBM LinuxONE and adopt Oracle on zLinux as part of their future archit...
about 2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted