IBM System Storage Ideas Portal
Hide about this 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 5623

NTP updates needed

Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
2 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Submitted

NTP updates needed

Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
2 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

Include "Remove Session" command under dual control to secure LCP!!!

To secure our LCP backup environment
3 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
26 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Need to be able to backup to Dell DataDomain

DataDomain cannot ingest S3 objects. It can ingest NFS. Need to be able to write Fusion Backup objects to NFS on DD.
3 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

PPRC with LUN's greater than 4TB

The customer in CMVC 372631 (BANK_OF_PIRAEUS) wants to migrate data from DS8900 (75KND00) to DS8A00 (78NWC50); involving volumes with a size of more than 4 TB. Current code has a boundary to allow for replication of a volume above a size of 4TB.
3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Defender Data Protect Agent needs to support customer-issued CA certificates

Especially for big customers with their own customer CA, we NEED to support their own certificates with Defender Data Protect agents to comply with their strict security requirements.
3 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Storage Insight Reports over all disks on all storage systems

Problem to solve the question: Do I have a storage system with a disk affected by a certain (faulty) firmware? SI is a central inventory system, which already collects the data of all storage systems and has this information already. It's a common...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SP Server certificate management

Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime. This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers. We can script most of it (create request,...
3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.