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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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Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Please add ability to select individual VMDKs for inclusion, excluding all unselected VMDKs

When configuring a Protection Group with a standardized configuration of the OS partition being on HDISK1, it is easier to select that one VMDK for inclusion rather than have to exclude all other VMDKs. Over time, VM configurations may change and ...
3 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

Enable AWS STS support

Currently generating a temporary token is associated to an object or file. In the case of many thousands of files we would prefer STS which would allow us to create temporary Sessions associated to a bucket that can be used to upload, via S3 many ...
5 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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

Storage Insights to report power supply issues in FlashSystem

Currently Storage Insights health status for a FlashSystem doesn't raise any alerts for power supply failure or power input issue. Everything shows green until the customer is notified via call-home or SNMP alerts set at the system level. The cust...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Fusion alternate namespace restores for Cloud Paks

Customer query - Will CPD 4.8 support via Fusion a restore of the same instance into a new namespace within the source cluster? That means I have two instances in different namespaces within the cluster. This is a constant request from customers w...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Get SOBAR supported for Spectrum Archive Disaster Recovery

We use SOBAR to backup metadata of all data that is going to Storage Archive. This is the only way to be able to recover data that was migrated toStorage Archive and recover this data when a disaster happens. In our use case we have an active arch...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration

Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

IBM SP4C - Automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process

Customer has requested the ability for IBM SP4C to automatically recover Microsoft Teams Tabs on the restore process. While the current restore functionality works, it does not automatically restores tabs to their previous state, requiring users t...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 1 Under review

SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review