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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    Integration support for ARCOS/ARCON Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Spectrum Control tool

    ICICI bank has 90+ IBM Storage arrays being managed by three IBM tools - Spectrum Control (TPC), Storage Insights (SI) and Copy Service manager (CSM). These should integrate with ARCOS for obtaining the password to access/work with storage arrays....
    8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Policy-based Quality of Service / Throttles

    Every vdisk out of a specific ressource (pool/childpool/host/cluster/vdisk-name) should get automatically a throttle per pre-defined policy.
    8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

    I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
    9 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Enable custom certificates for Storage Scale CNSA GUI on OpenShift

    We have to secure all Web GUIs with custom certificates from our In House CA. In detail we need the ibm-spectrum-scale-gui route from the ibm-spectrum-scale namespace to be secured by a custom certificate.
    9 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Allow longer TLS Certificates in DS8000 HMC, 2048 Bit is too less

    The Strength of Certificates was increased for all types of Certificates,and the TLS-Connection to HMC of DS8000 have to be hardened. The German BSI gives the order for minimum certificate lengh of 3072 Bit, more is allowed.Less is not allowed. So...
    9 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Update Storage Protect server to avoid using the S3:ListAllMyBuckets AWS Java SDK call

    Current version of Storage Protect server uses V1 of AWS SDK for Java library, the libary invokes ListAllMyBuckets function (SP server validate cloud operation),ListAllMyBuckets violates the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) and raises security ...
    10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    hardware inventory report in Storage Insights

    Kindly build mechanism to have one click hardware inventory report for assets configured for Storage Insights. No tool available in IBM portfolio to pull inventory of all assets configured.
    10 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

    Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
    10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Submitted

    Password Length in TS7700

    I would like to propose an idea to increase the length of the password for the TS7700 user profiles to more than 25 characters as it would help us to keep the security to a maximum. Also, we would like to include the special characters in the pass...
    10 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    AFM: Primary AFM Gateway is selected from one of gateway nodes in afm target map definitions

    For AFM-RO use case, currently afmGateway accepts all or a single primary gateway. Please provide another option where the afmGateway is chosen amongst the nodes defined in the afm target map definition
    11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

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