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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    Taints support for Fusion Access

    Capability in Fusion Access to present multiple-sized LUNs from external storage and the ability to determine which worker nodes in a single cluster have access to the various LUNs. Currently, Fusion Access requires that all externally presented L...
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

    The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Planned for future release

    Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

    Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    add the server certificates and key database to the prepare plan file

    To recover a Storage Protect server 5 files need to be backed up via some customer process separate from the Storage Protect tools. Creating a reliable workflow to protect these crucial files can be prone to error and thus to a failure of the abil...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Automatic retrieval of the public SSL certificate for LDAP or z/OS connections.

    Manually retrieving the public SSL certificate from each server to import it into CSM during LDAP configuration or when adding a z/OS connection can be cumbersome. There are many applications that query the remote server themselves to retrieve the...
    3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Download storage system CSVs

    Being able to download CSVs for individual tables such as hosts, volumes, etc. is great. It would be nice to be able to have an option at the storage system level to export/download a .zip file that contains full table CSVs for all child objects i...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Spectrum Protect for ERP should support HANA 2.0 SP08

    We are currently running SP for ERP 8.1.11, which supports SAP HANA 2.0 up to SP7. Our customer (and HANA support) wants to install SAP HANA 2.0 SP8, but we heard this is not supported with SP for ERP SAP HANA 8.1.11. Our SAP colleagues told us, t...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

    Ability to Trigger Customized Client-Initiated Call Home via DSCLI or API

    As a DS8000 user with numerous DS8000s in our environment, we do not currently have an automated method to trigger an IBM Health Check on one or more of our DS8000 systems. Due to security concerns, we do not currently have IBM Storage Insights im...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Display write-protect status of a cartridge in the UI and API

    It would be a really useful feature to be able to see at a glance which tapes in the library currently have their write-protect switch turned on.
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    support of IBM COS Onprem Container mode with Object Lock in SP

    Currently, only vault mode with Protectected Vault retention is supported. We need support for container mode to enable governance or compliance mode on SP immutable backups
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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