IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Requiring Elevated Access When Deleting Source Volume with SGC and TPI

Current state. Superuser is disabled. Two security admins are set. TPI is enabled. Safeguarded Copy (SGC) is active per volume group (VG). Each sec admin and each admin can delete any source volume in the SGC VG. The volume goes to "deleting state...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

DS8000 REST API Enhancement to Include HMC Settings

We are having to self-audit our inventory of DS8K to ensure they conform to company Information Security Standards and it would help us immensely if a script can collect HMC settings from each DS8K and compare to expected values using REST API que...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

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?
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion Under review

add the ability to sort by Storage systems in the flash grid Storage systems page

when you log into the storage flash grid and go to Storage systems, there is no way to sort. by being able to click on the Storage systems bar to sort would make it alot easier to locate storage systems.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Handle PVCs without StorageClass as warning instead of blocking the backup

IBM Storage Fusion Backup & Restore should handle PVCs without an OpenShift StorageClass more gracefully during backup validation. In some environments, especially with IBM Cloud Pak for Data, there can be many PVCs that refer to external NFS ...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

SVC GUI SCU calculator

SVC SCU calculation is physical capacity-based with a disk type conversion factor value (Calculation Terms: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=L-PGBC-EPMNYG&lc=en). SVC GUI show the compressed space mounted; this is higher fro...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

To expand TPI functionality to include the startrcconsistgrp command

Hi IBM, While exploring the TPI functionality, I would like to suggest for an enhancement pertaining to expanding TPI functionality for restricted admin role to include the "startrcconsistgrp" command. This will be useful when allowing storage ope...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Interoperability with Sangfor virtualization

Hi I have a customer here in PH already using FS 5300 and being used by sangfor. Now i’m proposing FS 5600. Attached to a sanfor virtualization. How come my fpq got rejected.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

GCP Cloud storage using Google Workload Identity federation support for IBM Fusion- Backup and restore as backup backend

We need enormous amount of storage to host backup data from CP4AIOPS and Openshift Virtualisation and we are running out of Onprem storage . We have GCP storage available to us but it needs authenication via Workload Identity Federation . I can se...
about 2 months ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Machine rack door intrusion notification and machine rack door intrusion prevention

Customers would be able to add another layer of notification and/or security to all their IBM machines that have doors. I propose a door sensor and/or door lock feature code that would let customers know if somebody has opened the door of their ma...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

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