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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    CSI driver with RWX permission

    we have a large VMware environment that uses an IBM FS7300 storage system as the primary storage for virtual machines. We have recently started using Kubernetes together with Persistent Volumes. However, the native CSI driver only supports RWO (Re...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Functionality already exists

    Repurpose AFM as Service Node on Fusion HCI

    We have customers that purchased racks with AFM nodes and did not have service nodes. Many have converted from GDP to FDF and now have AFM that are not used. Can we convert the AFM nodes to service nodes?
    2 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (SGC) offload to TS7700 VTL

    DS8000 users are driving multiple Safeguarded Copy (SGC) cycles per day - and are keeping many days worth of those SGC copies on the DS8000... but many have also expressed wanting to keep 'more' copies on TS7700 VTL. For example, perhaps making a ...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 14 Submitted

    IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

    Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
    5 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    one or few click retry of failed objects on protection group

    Makes day-to-day administration of backups easier and increase overall success rate of backups
    23 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add Quiet mode in mmdsh to suppress ssh banner message

    when using mmdsh and running cluster level cmds, ssh banner messages are interfering in the outputs which is making mmdsh outputs difficult to read. need a ssh -q equalent in mmdsh to supress these banner messages which are sometime as big as half...
    14 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    IBM Lin_Tape driver support für Rocky Linux 8

    As mentioned above, it would be great if you would consider supporting Lin_Tape driver for TS4500 Tape Library on Rocky Linux 8.
    14 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Submitted

    Add Samba CES support for delete veto files

    This issue was reported by users of IBM Global Storage Architecture (GSA / GSA2). On a Windows system with a samba mapped drive when deleting a directory that contains a symlink that was created on a unix system; Windows is removing the linked fil...
    11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Request for Enhancement – Detailed Backup Object Metadata in IBM Storage Protect Server

    Description: Currently, the Backup‑Archive Client (dsmc query backup -detail or GUI) displays Last Modified Date, Last Accessed Date, Backup Date, and file attributes of the backup object. However, the IBM Storage Protect server (e.g., BACKUPS tab...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    System Hardening, add more security to the s3 interface by allowing to only listen on tcp/443 for the s3 ports and listen on ssh only on Management Ports

    Currently every node of the DeepArchive system listens on every interface for all ports. Therefor ssh is possible on the data interface as s3 glacier is possible on the MGMT interfaces. This is not good for security reasons, because you can separa...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

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