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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 for Object Lock on IBM Ceph as an object target for Commvault

Testing required for object lock with Commvault using Ceph as the object target. Customer requirement for capacity of approx 2.6PB Ceph system with support for immutability.
23 days ago in IBM Storage CEPH 2 Submitted

Adding Enhancment on Measurement Monitoring on level of Fileset quota

Because in our company GPFS structure based on three or four filesystem like /production & /test and we created million of fileset based on project name but unfortunately some of these filesets reach maximum quota 100% and application down bec...
4 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Integrate RELP support in FlashSystem

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in FlashSystem would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
7 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Use raid or erasure coding when storing data on tape

As tape media grows in size, the loss on one tape, maybe 40Tb of data, can be a very harmful. Data should be stored on tapes using erasure coding or raid5 technology. Then data can be recovered and the lost tape can be regenerated. This will great...
8 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
25 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
22 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Ability to alter the audit log retention period

Hello! We recently came across the need to reduce the audit log retention period of a storage scale system to save some space and we realized that the only way to do that is to disable and re-enable the audit log feature altogether. As an end user...
7 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Policybased replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Spectrum Archive batch selective_recall tasks should utilize duplicate tapes if primary copy is on invalid tape

Our archive system is set to write files to two tape pools for redundancy (and offsiting). Sometimes we will have a recall where tape 1 copy (set a) is on a tape that needs to go thru validation or has some other reason to not be considered valid....
9 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted