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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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Spectrum Archive support for AFM DR

Hi, A Large Spectrum Scale customer in Israel who use AFM DR, asked us to find him a solution for archiving in the primary site. the customer asking this because he has more than 1PB relevant for archive in production site and he is willing to inv...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable changing local account passwords via RESTAPI

We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
over 1 year ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale GUI & API should support nested groups with LDAP/IPA authentication

Using nested groups (objectclass=nestedGroup) is a common feature of modern directories (e.g. Active Directory, FreeIPA/RedHat Identity Manager, and IBM Tivoli Directory Server ) and make it much easier to manage group memberships by adding a grou...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

SPP - restart a job for one VM in Sla

we need to restart a backup job for one VM (if errors during last sla jobs)
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Make policy creation use case easier

When creating a policy there are 3 very common stumbling blocks that force them to abandon the definition and start over from step 1. These problems are, roughly in order of occurrence: ***** A. User forgot to define tag for the policy. Currently,...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

You are not warned of IOGrp Overload

Storwize will let you continue to add volumes to an overloaded IOgrp. There are no limits in this area which means you can add more work to an already stressed IOGRP. There is no balance either meaning one IOgrp can be over loaded while other IOgr...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Restore of backed up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same may fail

Based on APAR IT34036, backing up Hyper-V VMs from a replica source where replica vm name is the same as the original virtual machine name can result in data to become unrecoverable because the state of the original vm and the replica may differ (...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

TS4500 LDAP auth has a flaw

User authentication up against LDAP does not work in our environment. The reason for that is that we have brackets in our AD users Display Name. That issue was discovered in IBM case TS005232687It is not an option to delete the brackets in our AD ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration