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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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Encryption: Switching between Local and External Encryption

Many customers today, like this one, start with Local encryption. Also as this is cheaper, and less effort, than purchasing GKLM. And Local is often initially enough, for data-at-rest encryption. But later on they hear about IFCES (IBM Fibre Chann...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8K Configuration menu should not accept an IPv4 address that ends in zero or one

DS8K Configuration menu should not accept an IPv4 address that ends in zero or one. These are typically reserved for gateways/routers on a network and should not be assigned to end devices.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Webclient for 7.1.8 and 8.1.2

please know that in the Healthcare and Hospital environment, the Web Client is very highly used, and extremely important. Your statement that the Web client is not needed because the BA client GUI is available and can be used. However, you fail to...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

add security to dscli commands

we want to create personalized security profile by selecting only some dscli commands (and equivalence with the GUI) to restrict permission to a community.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Spacereservation in compressed pools

In systems with with Flashmodules and compression always on there should be a integrated process to reserve some space for emergency release. As these systems are designed for overprovisioning this is a lack of security.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Forecast of remaining Restore Duration

Dynamically get a Forecast by spectrum protect Server of the remaining Restore Duration for Restores of Databases and File Restore
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SNMP v3 support for TS4500

Security hardening
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus for PowerVM

Backup Virtual Machines from IBM PowerVM virtualization
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Exclude File System Type

Would like to exclude per the file system type.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration