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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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IBM Storage Defender Data Protect support for Oracle oVirt

Oracle oVirt (bought by Oracle from Red Hat). Per the documentation, oVirt (Red Hat) was supported until version 6.1.8. Now oVirt is part of the new Oracle, but not yet officially supported by Data Protect.
13 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

GCP Object Lock support

Backups immutability feature by using google cloud object locking. Add GCP to a large list of already compatible object storage sources: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-protect-object-storage-support
15 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

ISP4VE - Re-use the old view of the plugin

In the past it was possible to adjust the data mover with plugin function from the VCenter Plugin. With the newer version it is not possible anymore to adjust it easily Depending on the environment the flexible adjustment on this place is needed. ...

Launch Defender Licensing calculator service to enable self-service license planning

There's a need to launch a Defender Licensing calculator service within the platform to increase transparency and enable self-service for Defender customers The information and platform is already available within IBM and IBM Ecosystem organizatio...
17 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Support for snapshot based Hyper-V backup on Windows 2025

Planning of upgrade to Hyper-V on Windows 2025 needs support to protect the data via snapshots.

Storage Insights should support the creation of hosts for NVMe-attached devices.

Storage Insights does not currently support the creation ofhosts for NVMe-attached devices.It needs to include the hosts that are zoned with the NVME protocol in addition to the SAN Capacity (GiB) field.
23 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Implement the cancel reclaim command

At this moment, it's not possible to cancel a reclamation process through ISP scripting. The only option you have is to do this outside of the server with OS scripts. These scripts first have to retrieve the process number of running reclaim proce...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor Tape devices

Customer would like the ability to monitor Tape devices in Storage Insights
29 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage

Customer would like the ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage in Storage Insights
29 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted