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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    Capacity Pool Forecasting Report

    Customer is looking for some kind of report which they can follow the pool capacity usage with a line of threshold and also a forecasting curve where they can see when the system will reach the full capacity based on predictions of previous usage.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Under review

    Retention rule Media be part of DRM

    If you are using Container Pool and want to create a air-gap copy of your data, either you do a protect storage pool to protect everything to your tape device or if you want to keep a offline copy for a longer period then the normal policy domain ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Support APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.

    Support Local existing APT repository to support storage scale deployment on UBUNTU through open source ansible scale roles.
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    include ABRT packages in EMS repos

    It is common for support to ask for a core or ABRT report as part of in depth troubleshooting of particularly nasty Scale System component issues. Currently those ABRT packages are not included in the repositories packaged with the EMS node and it...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    support multi-arch payload to add alt arch worker nodes to HCI OCP cluster

    Customers who want to leverage unique capabilities of alternative architecture platforms supported by OCP such as LinuxOne and IBM POWER want to add these alt arch worker nodes to their x86 HCI OCP cluster. Pre-req step on x86 cluster: https://doc...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Request for Product Qualification: DAR Encryption External Key Manager for Jack Henry

    Customer is migrating their enterprise to Fortanix DSM 4.23+. They are shutting down their existing EKM's. All data center assets need to utilize Fortanix DSM for centralized, separation of duties, EKM management. Jack Henry current DS8 systems: D...
    7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Fusion Data Catalog - support for show back / charge back cost analysis

    Fusion Data Catalog already provides the ability to show how much capacity is consumed / used by a user or a group within a storage system. being able to add the ability to define the cost per storage tier for storage systems that are being monito...
    7 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Enhancement Request - Automating audit operations to detect damaged extents, inconsistencies, and corrupted files in the background

    Periodic runs of the audit containers command or using audit stgrule options are required to scan the chunks and detect any inconsistencies and damages. This is an intensive and manual operation that adds additional overhead to the Storage Protect...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Group View by Location

    Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    ESS GUI file system resize option requested

    It would be nice to be able to increase the size of an existing gpfs file system from within the ESS GUI instead of having to do it on the command line.
    7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

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