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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    Develop the Transparent Cloud Tiering capability to send snapshots to cloud, but use a different Ethernet port than the managment port.

    Would like to send snapshots to the cloud vs. storing them locally long term. This funcationality exists, but requires the use of the management network to connect to the cloud. Would like to use another Ethernet port to send snapshots to the clou...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    CSM SGC backup count reporting

    Enhance CSM to provide comprehensive reporting and alerting for SGC backups, improving visibility into backup health and recoverability. This capability will help operations and support teams proactively monitor backup status and identify risks
    6 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    gpfs_prealloc() support to preallocate any bytes of an new created file without zero-out data

    Most of recent AI workload saves raw data in cloud object storage. When GPU is going to training partial of raw data, these data will be loaded and saved in high performance file system, such as Storage Scale. In ADAS and some of other AI worklo...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhancement for Replication to Dissimilar Policies

    In case of using replication to dissimilar policies and stgrule "ALL_DATA" with lower retention* parameters on the target site, the source send nevertheless all of source data to the target server.After it, a part of inactive data will be deleted ...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Proxmox VE - Backup with Storage Defender Data Protect

    Allow Defender Data Protect to seamlessly integrate with Proxmox Virtual Environment without the need for an agent. This integration is requested by customers and included in RFPs to ensure the capability of performing VM-consistent backups and fa...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    Prevend db2 abort within multiple backup streams

    If an error/abort occurs on one of the tape drives during a 6-stream db2 backup to tape, the entire backup is aborted by the db2. Please change the error behavior for db2 backups to resume with the remaining sessions to finish the backup job succe...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Allow virtual copies of the SAME tape volser time aligned with DS8K safeguarded copy.

    At the moment it's impossible to recover tape in line with disk. This massively reduces the usefulness of SafeGuarded copy.
    17 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

    Enhance security for administrators when accessing the GUI

    This is a list of ideas that can enhance/control login security - Grant IP access for cluster admins, basically allow from spesific ip ranges if user is member of role = admin, or .  This is important where DP interface is open to public, but...
    17 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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