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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    Continue CIM support

    Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery. Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available. IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

    zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

    Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

    RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Under review

    Protocols - S3: virtual host style addressing of S3 buckets

    Virtual Host Style addressing (https://bucket.my-s3-server.com) is the preferred S3 addressing option for AWS - see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/VirtualHosting.html Scale CES S3 does not support this out-of-the box yet. Wi...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Future consideration

    Need support for vSphere Exclude VM tags in Plus

    Customer has a huge number of vCenters supported currently by SP4VE and has invested in SP4VE plugin and tagging including using vSphere tagging to exclude VMs. Plus will limit this customer from moving off SP4VE to Plus if they have to code all t...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    MFA features require to add Google authentication

    Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect has Google authentication enabled, but IBM Flash Storage and SVC do not support Google authentication or MFA features. Including this functionality in upcoming versions would be highly beneficial, as it would allow ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    TS7700 - Single Sign ON (SSO) with OIDC

    Add SSO support via OIDC to externalize authentication and enable multi factor authentication on the VTS HMC and TSSC
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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

    As the TSSC 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 man...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - simple deletion of all default certificates

    TSSC shall offer the option to delete all default certificates with a single click and allow to delete all expired certificates with a single click as well.
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - Certificates - allow selection of multiple entries

    Certificate management shall switch from 'radio' button to 'check-box' to allow multiple entries to be deleted with a single click. Currently I have to select a single entry, click delete, select the next one, click delete and so on. If check boxe...
    6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

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