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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    Add the ability to select Interface group for AIX agent

    Currently there is no way to implicitly select a backup interface for a client. This feature is available for Linux agent, but with no support for AIX. For some host systems it would be good addition to ensure the data flow to use the correct inte...
    about 2 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add the option to delete a description previously created

    Add the option to delete a description that was previously created when selecting an alert to resolve, since some descriptions may no longer apply or simply need to be removed. It would be great to also have the ability to delete any description t...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Local key manager for tape encryption

    Today, tape encryption requires the use of an external key manager, e.g. GKLM. Customers are reluctant to adopt tape encryption because of the overhead the key manager infrastructure introduces into their operations: Licenses are required, bare me...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    Deep Archive Integration with Microsoft Entra ID

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support integration with Microsoft Entra ID for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind of integration, and would greatly...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    Deep Archive support for S3 Partial Object Retrieval

    The current software version of IBM Storage Deep Archive (1.2.0) does not support S3 partial object retrieval functionality. This feature would be particularly useful in the media industry and would greatly increase the adoption of this technology...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Functionality already exists

    Replication to Dissimilar Domain by Using of Configuration Management

    By setting of DISSIMILARPOLICIES to ON it is possible to set different policies on source and target site of replication.But this dissimilarity is however referenced to the domain of source site.Actually if your node on the target site belongs to ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Defender data Protect KVM Support

    Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Data Protection for Mail compatibility with HCL Domino 14.5

    Domino released version 14.5 on June 17, 2025. As of today DP for Domino supports HCL Domino 14.0.x, but not 14.5.
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1

    Provide governance details in Defender Data Resiliency Service for SaaS based application like Storage Protect for Public Cloud

    Doing so would enable clients to use Defender to use "Governance" for SaaS based applications and broaden support from the usual on-prem application/infrastructure.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Submitted

    SP4VE increase max vmdk support limit of 8TB

    Many customers have passed the 8TB for a single VMDK and currently cannot use SP4VE to protect these virtual machines.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

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