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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    Add pool capacity information to REST call "get pools"

    Customers are converting from dscli to REST API to feed e.g. Grafana dashboards. The dscli "lsextpool" command displays values for totalLogicalCap, usedLogicalCap, provisionedCap, totalPhysicalCap, usedPhysicalCap and compressionRatio. The REST re...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Increment of space are for data collection

    Ds8K are used in big and complex environment, and Copy Services solution are increasing in size and mode (Multi-site, different Copy Set, Topology, etc) In case of Test performed by Client or also during the workday operation , if an error in enco...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

    Sentinel Integration into Defender

    IBM Storage Sentinel must be functionally integrated with IBM Storage Defender, specifically with the Data Resiliency Service (DRS). This integration should allow Sentinel's ransomware detection results to be consumed directly by DRS, enabling aut...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    On premises S3 as a source for protection

    Many customers are starting to ask for on premises S3 to be protected as part of their daily routine. Defender DP can currently protect S3 data based on AWS ( https://docs.cohesity.com/7_1_2/Web/UserGuide/Content/Cloud/protect-amazon-s3.htm?Highli...
    over 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1

    Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

    ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

    REST API Certificate Renewals for Hydra

    In a large enterprise environment we have many certificates that need to be renewed. This additional functionality to the REST API will allow customers to automate the renewals of the management console certificates.
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

    REST API Certificate Renewals for TSSC

    In an enterprise environment we need to automate the renewals of our certificates for the TS7700 estate.
    10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add scheduled task progress and concatenation visibility

    With CSM 6.3.17, there is no easy capability yet in the task overview, to recognize which tasks are concatenated and how they are concatenation to get an idea about the overall task flow. Furthermore, there is no indication which task is being exe...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    DS8900 ability to run advanced call home for SI on HMC

    Customer is retiring older windows VM machines that run the SI data collector. They would like the ability to have advanced call home for SI on these systems so that they don't have to standup dedicated systems just to run a data collector for sys...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

    Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

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