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 Ontap 9.17.1 /9.18.1

    The support for Ontap 9.16.1 runs out in 31. Januar 2028. The support for Ontap 9.15.1 on 31. Juli 2027. So only 1,5 or 2 years left. Please support more current releases
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0

    Add setup options for secure, encrypted and authenticated E-Mail notification for Tape Library TS4500

    For security reasons we need the possibility to send authenticated and encrypted (TLS) alert emails with a predefined email address as sender. Unfortunately only authentification for emails is currently configurable.
    2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Hyperswap - Linux on Z.

    Hello Development and Product management teams. I would like to suggest an enhancement to the DS8000 related to the high availability solution, Hyperswap. We are seeing an increasing number of customers adopting Linux on Z, and one of these custom...
    11 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

    use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    HTTPS support for Internal Proxy Server (not only HTTP).

    Because customers do not support HTTP protocol any more.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Add clip functionality to ZCPYS / CSM

    Add functionality to ZCPYS and/or CSM to enable the clip of the VSN prefix on any flashcopy session. For example - we take a FlashCopy of a system with a VSN prefix of VA. Use ZCPYS to change the VSN prefix on the Flash Copy session from VA to VQ ...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Sentinel Integration into Defender

    IBM Storage Sentinel must be functionally integrated with IBM Storage Defender, specifically with the Data Resiliency Service (DRS). This integration should allow Sentinel's ransomware detection results to be consumed directly by DRS, enabling aut...
    8 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 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 ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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