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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    CNSA support for ARM64 openshift worker

    we plan to integrate new GPU Worker in Openshift. New GPU Server like Nvidia Vera will be based on ARM Architecture (AARCH64).That architecture is supported by Spectrum Scale, but currently not in the support matrix for CNSA at openshift.For Plani...
    5 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enable the TS4500 Tape Library to accept TLS 1.2 + configuration (Dual TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3)

    As the security landscape changes and companies need to fortify their online borders, there has been a widespread push to adopt TLS 1.3. The TS4500 currently only supports TLS 1.2 and many efforts are underway for companies to move forward with th...
    26 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Enable PIV/CAC Certificate-Based Authentication with LDAP for IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700

    We request an enhancement to the IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700 systems to support certificate-based authentication using PIV/CAC cards in conjunction with LDAP. Currently, these systems only support password-based authentication with LDAP, which does no...
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    DSCLI command providing the number of available FICON logical paths per LCU

    Some clients are struggling with the 512-logical path per LCU limit.  This limit is an issue to them in particular with shared devices and with double run during z refreshs (eg. z16/z17).The command would tell how many logical paths (to a giv...
    9 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Health Check script which validates total cluster health

    The idea is to provide customers with a simple health-check script they can run before an upgrade, planned shutdown, data-center power maintenance, or whenever they want to verify that their system is healthy. As of today, this process is mostly m...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Please add support for VMware Tanzu

    We kindly ask you to  Officially support VMware Tanzu   Provide exclusion capabilities for unsupported resource types like Tanzu namespaces (When you add a vCenter Server instance to IBM Storage Protect the product performs an automat...
    10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Submitted

    Enable PIV/CAC Certificate-Based Authentication with LDAP for IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700

    We request an enhancement to the IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700 systems to support certificate-based authentication using PIV/CAC cards in conjunction with LDAP. Currently, these systems only support password-based authentication with LDAP, which does no...
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

    When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 9 Under review

    Ability to run selected Scheduled Task Actions Concurrently

    The new feature that allows CSM to IPL LPARs for cyber validation could be exploited even more effectively by allowing multiple IPLs to take place simultaneously. In an environment with multiple LPARs that need to be IPLed, doing them serially pre...
    3 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    Provide hardware information withing the initial setup assistant

    In some environments you need to know configuration information before you set up a new system, for example WWPNs or MAC addresses of each port. Today this information is not available in the setup wizard, and thus it forces you to pause the wizar...
    3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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