Skip to Main Content
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 5417

DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

make environmental stats available in SVC nodes

For a while now, Storwize and FlashSystem controllers support environmental statistics like watts used and temperature, which can be queried by 'lsenclosurestats'. Funnily, no recent SVC generation supports this command, ie SV1/2/3 and SA2. Many c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

Add support for reverse flashcopy with HyperSwap volumes

Currently a reverse flashcopy (restore) is not supported to a HyperSwap volume. The request is to be able to do a restore of a flashcopy to a hyperswap volume.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Enable Discover to scan for Data Classes such as Last Name, First Name, Date of Birth, GPS Coordinates, Latitude and Longitude

The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) is able to use the Regex based data classes in Cloud Pak for Data/ Watson Knowledge Catalog. However, Discover product is not able to leverage non-regex based data class...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Enable Discover to complete full scan of Unstructured source (document) and collect metrics such as gross count and net count

The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) stops scanning the document after detecting the first instance of the data class such as SSN or Phone number. At this time, the results from using the Discover product o...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allowing for hybrid connections in the same Diamondback (SAS/FC)

Allow for customer to order a Diamondback with a hybrid of SAS and fiber channel drives. Allowing a single Diamondback to support different type of workloads/connections vs requiring two Diamondbacks to achieve this.
8 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 0 Planned for future release

TSS - Enable DNS over TLS

To implement concepts like zero-trust it must be possible to define in the TSS management console the Name Server as a secured one using DNSSEC and either DNS over HTTPS (DoH) or DNS over TLS (DoT).
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration