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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    Support-info collection, upload and analytics tool

    It is a pain to collect db2diag-logs, dsmffdc-logs, Q SYSTEM output, Q ACT output and so on for every support ticket, then bundle the files, scp to computer with browser and upload to IBM Support. Why not, instead of sending the commands every tim...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Change the number of invalid logon attempts from lock the account or the node to a ban/black list of ip address

    Starting with IBM Spectrum® Protect 8.1.15, the minimum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed before a node or administrator account is locked is changed from 0 to 1. The maximum number of invalid logon attempts that are allowed is 10....
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Archive/Retrieve in IBM Spectrum Protect V8.1.7 and above Secure Web GUI

    We plan to upgrade IBM Spectrum Protect server code and client code to 8.1.7 and above. During functional test, we found that the new secure webclient is missing Archive/Retrieve function. As we have many users to use the traditional web client to...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Add support in SP4VE/vSphere to restore to specific resource pool

    Add functionality in Sp4VE/vSphere to restore VM's into specific resource pool in vSphere environment.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD"

    Our customer's shell script was failed by "GSKKM_ERR_VALIDATION_KEY_VALIDITY_PERIOD".We understand we can intentionally avoid this by recreating the certificate manually,but it will cause the operational load to occur.Our customer want us to make ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Functionality already exists

    Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

    It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration

    Encrypt data on DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

    Encryption of IBMZ<->DS8000 (via FICON FEx16SA and/or FEx32S) is possible. Fibre Channel Endpoint Security provides in-flight protection for all data over FICON and Fibre Channel (FCP) links. But data traffic DS8000<->DS8000 via Fibre...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Add media verification result to dataCartridges RestAPI endpoint

    All clients using media verification would benefit from the result being provided in the RestAPI output. Today the result can only be displayed on a per cartridge basis in the GUI. This is not a practible audit trail.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Functionality already exists

    Rolling upgrades of space management client.

    When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

    Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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