IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    DS8K - HMC must support at least 4096-bit RSA keys

    Currently DS8K only issues 2048-bit RSA keys which is not sufficient anymore.
    11 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

    ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    SafeGuarded copy enforced retention

    Currently SGC can be removed just from restricted security administrator, protected by 2-Person integrity (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=security-two-person-integrity). To further enhance SGC protection, the proposal is ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    German translation of System should be System, not Systemberechtigung

    In Version 9.1 of the Flash System GUI in german the menu for system changed to 'Systemberechtigung' which simply is a wrong translation. Since years it was always System in english or in german, which every german native speaker understands. Syst...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

    Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

    The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Customer requesting support of TOTP/SAML

    So we will be moving to Ping, the date is still TBD. That said yes that will be of interest to us when we implement Ping.. But the gap on SSH access will still be a concern. As far as other products that do this. Cohesity has pretty extensive supp...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release
    111 VOTE

    Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

    Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a manner other than source type.

    Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

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