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 IBM Spectrum Scale Bridge for Grafana in the Storage Scale DAE release

    The Grafana bridge feature is very useful in determining overall Filesystem usage and performance metrics. Currently the incorporated Storage Scale GUI does not provide the same level of client filesystem utilization, this is where the Bridge for ...
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

    Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

    We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Add GKLM Protection and Overview to Defender

    The GKLM Installation is critical for some Defender Installations because it provides the keys to encrypt tape and disk storage used in Defender. It should be seen in Defender as Ressource and Data Protect should be able to protect the instance.
    9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Option to keep main menu to the left open when clicking on a sub-option

    I often move between different menus in GUI and I find it time-consuming and irritating that the menu is closed every time I click on a sub-option. I've tried both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox to see if different browsers behaved differently,...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    SPP: Get SQL backup amount via REST API / report

    I would like to have possibility in SPP to get correct backup amount (frontend size) for each client. Just for clarification frontend amount should be base backup + all transfer sizes before deduplication and compression. Actual build-in reports a...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    VSNAP uses NFS in v.3 in VM test restore. How can we force VSNAP to use NFS in v.4

    It will improve security, performance improvements, improved stability and scalability. NFS is in v.4 due to this ensure VM restores and other operations are performed in the most efficient and secure manner possible.
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

    Process DB snapshot volumes with DRM

    Prior to SP 8.1.25, the SP sever disaster recovery manager (DRM) would process DB snapshot backup volumes. Beginning in 8.1.25 (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT47560), DB snapshot volumes are ignored by DRM which can make them invisib...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    Allow customer to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level

    Allow customers to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level (admin, operator, etc) … The customer would like to adminstir the groups on th eDS8k exactly how it works in the Storage Manager GUI for the z/OS.
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Allow multiple targets in an AFM-fileset (AFM-S3 only perhaps)

    It would be good if we could have data coming from multiple sources in an AFM fileset. Perhaps a client has data that needs to be presented from NFS and S3. The application would have to talk to two different filesets to get data. The current use ...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Under review

    Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

    Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

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