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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    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
    5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add Microsoft Hyper-V Support in IBM Storage Defender Sentinel and IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management

    IBM Storage Defender Sentinel and IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management currently lack native support for Microsoft Hyper-V environments. This limits security scanning coverage for customers running Windows-based virtualization infrastructures...
    2 months ago in Storage Sentinel 1 Submitted

    Object Lock: Limit retention to a maximum number of days and add an option to disable COMPLIANCE lock on a bucket

    Add configuration on bucket or container vault or both that limits the maximum number of days allowed when using object lock. Configuration can be made using service API or GUI as this is not something supported on s3api. Another option that might...
    18 days ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

    Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Reconnect message in the console to match the disconnect message

    Currently, CSM seems to only show a message when it is disconnected from a DS8K storage system but not when it subsequently reconnects. IWNH1044E Nov 5, 2025, 9:57:30 PM The Replication Manager is disconnected from a cluster for the hardware devic...
    13 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights

    Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights. This is a requirement by our Cyber team to control access to our Storage Insights instance. We had opened TS021203790 to enable this feature, but the responded that the option is not available...
    13 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Improvement of mmnetverify for remote mounted filesystems

    mmnetverify seems to be created with the assumption that everyone is using adminMode=allToAll, and is using passwordless ssh for many of it's checks. This is problematic both to local cluster with adminMode=central (no passwordless ssh from client...
    20 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Installation of DSCLI with all Java Versions

    Manual "DS8 Command-Line Users Guide":Java Platform (Java 8 or later) must be installed on your system. The installation program checks for this requirement during installation and does not install the DS CLI if you do not have Java Platform, Ente...
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

    New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
    5 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

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