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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    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...
    26 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    enhance onboard performance monitoring

    For many years customers have been asking to enhance the built-in performance monitoring capabilities in StorV's GUI. For a while now we're offering a 60 days history but only at an overall system/node level. However, many customers expect from an...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
    about 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    code download checking integrity

    Customer Audit and compliance requirements are driving the need for independently verifiable evidence that firmware, Licensed Internal Code (LIC), and related system code have not been altered. While IBM firmware includes internal integrity valida...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Audit compliance for code intergrity

    Customer Audit and compliance requirements are driving the need for independently verifiable evidence that firmware, Licensed Internal Code (LIC), and related system code have not been altered. While IBM firmware includes internal integrity valida...
    about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

    The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 6 Not under consideration

    mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

    Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

    Integration with Storage Insights

    Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 13 Planned for future release

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration
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    Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

    Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

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