IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

    As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Multi-factor authentication for Storage Deep Archive

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support Multi-factor authentication for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind security enhancement, and would greatly i...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

    allow a human-friendly label for backup sources

    Currently when defining a source for backup, the name of the source can be rather complex and not user friendly. This will vary depending upon the source type, but in some cases (such as Azure backup workloads), the source name is just a large com...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Submitted

    Enable file and folder-level recovery of objects from AIX systems archived on IBM Storage Protect by using the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect object agent S3 interface

    Currently, file and folder-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archives AIX objects to IBM Storage Protect using its S3 tape storage interface. We request an enhancement to the...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Spine switches for Fusion HCI HA setups with FDF

    IBM Fusion HCI offers different HA configurations for data replication with Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as storage provider. Because FDF cannot separate the storage traffic into a dedicated storage network, the HCI uplinks and the customer networ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Allow the scan job definition to automatically handle changes to the application instance name, eliminating the need for manual updates to the scan job definition

    Currently the CDM scan job definition root selection has the server's name and instance name. This condemns us to change the CDM job spec every time that the source is updated (typically at least 2x per year). The scan job will fail if this is not...
    6 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 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...
    10 months ago in Storage Sentinel 1 Submitted

    Enable inline compression of files at ingestion for IBM Storage Scale

    Our client needs to have the option to compress some well-known files inline, at ingestion -first write- time. Their goal is to enable this compression on the gpfs clients. They use remote-mounts to connect to their gpfs filesystems (having ESS as...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Implement bucket policies for IBM COS in for Container mode

    Integrate bucket policies (similar to AWS S3 bucket policies) into the IBM COS on-premises solution for container mode. Specifically, I am interested in the ability to define fine-grained access control rules at the bucket level.
    6 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Submitted

    Need support for Microsoft Authenticator as MFA

    Microsoft's MFA is a very popular MFA and with Microsoft's solution compassing all enterprise needs, even MFA capability are being adopted as standard in large clients. Hence this integration is being asked from 18 months. Please consider it on pr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 10 Planned for future release

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