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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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Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support DHCP with NSD for ESS/SSS clusters

This will allow enterprises that require DHCP for ip address resolution.
25 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Network option for Ceph Ready Nodes

Our customers have asked us to upgrade their network performance and availability for Ceph Ready Nodes. Therefore, we would like you to add networking options as well as disk drives. - Number of NIC ports. Currently, with only two ports(10GbE), cu...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Enable TS7700 for Open Systems bei Adding the S3 Protocol

The TS700 has everything enterprise customers need. It has backend tape, it is a grid, it has all replication capabilities and so on. It could be the perfect system for multipetabyte data from open systems, e.g. tiering from data to tape out of co...
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Future consideration

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

Support NVIDIA H100 for Fusion HCI GPU node

NVIDIA GPU L40S support for GPU nodes alone is not enough to propose Fusion HCI in combination with Wotsonx.AI for generative AI environment. We need H100 support to win.
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 1

Missing informational event for rear door open status

While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
9 months ago in Tape - Ultra Density 1 Future consideration