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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    Authorize to set different IP for the NTP server on VTS7780

    Today it is impossible to configure different IP addresses on the clusters of a GRID of VTS7780. The VTS are generally installed on different and remote sites.An NTP server is available on each of the sites, but they have different IP addresses. I...
    8 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    IBM Storage Ready Node for Defender Sentinel

    Clients would benefit as they could procure the whole Sentinel solution from IBM and have it all supported by the same vendor. This also should take out the guesswork for sizing (by providing different T-Shirt sizes to scan a certain amount of TBs...
    4 months ago in Defender Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    SafeGuarded copy enforced retention

    Currently SGC can be removed just from restricted security administrator, protected by 2-Person integrity (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=security-two-person-integrity). To further enhance SGC protection, the proposal is ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Automate Fusion and OpenShift upgrades and cluster release via RedFish APIs

    Reducing time to deploy new OpenShift clusters in Fusion and upgrade both OpenShift and Fusion via RedFish APIs could help increase deployment tasks and reduce human errors
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Update DSCLI windows client with Developer Signatures for Win 11 Security

    The current DSCLI client will not install in Windows 11 environments secured with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, as the installer is not signed by a developer certificate. After moving to Windows 11, our storage admin team (4+ admins) is unable t...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

    We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
    5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Safe Bucket Policy Handling with generateBucketName

    Environment: IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation / ODF 4.19.1 Rook-Ceph Operator Buckets provisioned via ObjectBucketClaims (OBCs) GitOps automation using Helm + Argo CD generateBucketName used for dynamic bucket namin Problem Summary: Destructive ...
    5 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    CNSA - support Kubernetes on Azure Linux

    IBM Storage Scale will be able to provide the high-performant, scalable, and highly-available storage subsystem to meet the I/O requirement for containerized AI workload running on large GPU clusters with Azure Linux.
    12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

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