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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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VTS - Simplify RSYSLOG and TLS configuration

Currently to enable RSYSLOG with TLS is cumbersome and not the same as on other interfaces like TSSC. As documented RSyslog - IBM Documentation one has to add specific certificates with an alias to enable or disable TLS for the RSYSLOG connections...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Support NVIDIA H100 for Fusion HCI GPU node

NVIDIA GPU L40S support for GPU nodes alone is not enough to propose Fusion HCI in combination with Wotsonx.AI for generative AI environment. We need H100 support to win.
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 1

Minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore

We would like to get minute level snapshot policy for granular point in time restore which allows our users to have and ability to go back in time in case of any issues. Now the policies are available only for hourly, daily and weekly. On our curr...
22 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

SnapDiff v3 with ONTAP 9.13 and newer

It's great that Snapdiff V3 is now available with client version 8.1.23, but support is only available for ONTAP 9.12 and older versions. NetApp told us there is no reason for this. Could you please add support for ONTAP 9.13 and newer? IBM Suppor...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Native tape control - Offlload to Tape without Spectrum Protect

Our internal teams and Business Partners have been working to position Spectrum Protect Plus (SPP) to either existent and new clients but there is a commom claim that for new clients, it is absolutely important to have SPP performing the Offload t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enable a user to change the time zone within browser view of metrics

When I view performance metrics for a given Storage Virtualize (StorV) cluster SI renders time based on browser time zone setting. My investigation of performance issues would more efficient If I could change the time zone to match the time zone o...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Missing informational event for rear door open status

While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
8 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 1 Future consideration