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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Storage Fusion

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Fusion B/R Support for Vanilla Kubernetes

Add support to backup and restore Vanilla Kubernetes into Storage Fusion SDS & HCI.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file.

1. Problem: When looking for PII in a file, storage fusion catalog only detects the first instance of the PII element and stores it in a database as opposed to storing all PII elements in a file. For example, consider a pdf file (fileA.pdf) that h...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog

Detect additional types of PII using Watson NLP/ Watsonx.data integration for Storage Fusion Catalog. Problem Statement: Today Storage Fusion Catalog has regular expression (regex) pattern matching capability to detect PII in unstructured data. Wh...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Create new Satellite clusters in Fusion HCI from IBM Cloud console

Enable creation of NEW IBM Cloud Satellite location in customers IBM Fusion HCI environment from the IBM Cloud Console. This could be enabled by having a agent on Fusion HCI the customer connect to IBM Cloud Satellite console. The agent is allowed...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Autoscaling of Storage Fusion HCI hosts for IBM Cloud Satellite

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Satellite supports autoscaling, however it’s limited to hosts already assigned to Cloud Satellite requiring pre-creation and allocation of host in Fusion to Cloud Satellite. In a Fusion HCI with multiple separate IBM...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Create Fusion HCI virtual machines from the Cloud Satellite

Today you must first access Fusion HCI to create host for IBM Cloud Satellite, then go to IBM Cloud and create location and files/scripts, then return to Fusion to load the files to attach them to IBM Cloud Satellite and finally return to IBM Clou...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Use Fusion master nodes as host for IBM Cloud Satellite master nodes

If you currently use Fusion HCI as host platform for IBM Cloud Satellite you will use the Fusion HCI worker nodes. This results in a underutilization of the Fusion HCI Master nodes. By enabling the IBM Cloud Satellite location master nodes on the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR support for CP4BA

A lot of customers are already on CP4BA on OpenShift, and using FDF as their storage solution. There is a need for a Disaster Recovery solution using Fusion Data Foundation Regional DR, and to be tested with CP4BA especially these capabilities: BA...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Option to overwrite resources when doing retore

When doing a restore of resources, you have to previously delete the ones you want to restore. This is really complicated for customers and other backup SW allows "overwrite" including a tick on the restore process
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration