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).


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 5999 of 5999

    SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

    Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

    In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Replicate backups to S3 object-lock repository (e.g IBM COS, IBM Ceph)

    Many of our IBM clients have listened to our cyber resiliency messaging and looked to re-introduce a "3rd" copy of the data. In alignment with industry standardization for "321" backup methodology it is important to have an isolated and secure rep...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Future consideration

    Increased detail on TS4500 log events.

    Customer has requested the TS4500 log events be modified to reflect a higher level of granularity. The specific ask is to make the TS4500 log details similar (if not identical) to the logs produced by the TS4300. The customer appreciates the level...
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Add ability for Fusion Backup and Restore to lock backups using the S3 Object Lock API on supported object storage targets

    We have a client who is currently working to harden and integrate more immutability and airgapped data. Fusion users need protected, tamper-proof backups for compliance or ransomware defense , giving admins managing backup retention across object ...
    6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

    For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Add a SYSLOG option for console logs

    In addition to having the option to view the console logs in the user interface add an option to offload to a syslog server similar to hardware platforms (DS8, VTS, etc).
    7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Run csmcli via scheduled task without external server.

    I want to get CSM/DS8000 logs when CSM task failed. Problem here is that the ESSNI logs for both CSM/DS8000 fills up so quickly. We have an option in CSM task to save it which is "Create a PE package if error occurs running the task". This will sa...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    DS8K - Dual Control for operational activities

    Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the DS8K HMC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    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.