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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    Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

    Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
    25 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    ArgoCD Integration for CNSA deployment lifecycle and automation

    We use ArgoCD for Openshift based implementation lifecycle and patching. We need a way to integrate the CNSA images with ArgoCD to automate our CI/CD deployments for the CNSA clients across all our lanes.
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    TS7700 (VTS) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

    As the VTS does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to manu...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Dark site - Airgapped installation of S. Defender

    There are multiple situations where SaaS deployment cannot be done per security restrictions. We need an option to have S.Defender control plane deployed onprem as not always cloud deployment is possible
    over 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Enhance RestAPI to allow for control of AOS

    AOS is a mission critical remote support tool. Activation of AOS creates a threat vector therefore it should only ever be activated as needed and closed when support if fulfilled. Given the need for support could occur anytime, and the staff avail...
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Add GUI option to view, select and modify mirror write priority of Volumes

    Currently it is not possible to specify the mirror write priority parameter in the GUI during Volume Creation. The system allows two options for mirrored volumes: latency (which is the default) and redundancy. In some customer environments it is c...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Add ability for Fusion Backup and Restore to lock backups using the S3 Object Lock API on supported object storage targets

    We have a client who is currently working to harden and integrate more immutability and airgapped data. Fusion users need protected, tamper-proof backups for compliance or ransomware defense , giving admins managing backup retention across object ...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Ability to open a case for Storage Insights via Storage Insights

    Request to allow a user to open a support case for Storage Insights using Storage Insights. Storage Insights is able to open support cases for the IBM block storage systems but it does not have an option to open a support case for itself. As a res...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Functionality already exists

    HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

    TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Query for bitmap increment status

    During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
    9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Submitted

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