IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    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...
    4 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...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Fail job when cleanup fails

    Currently a CDM job will import file systems, scan for threats, and then remove the file systems. However, if the cleanup (removing file systems, removing volume groups/disks/etc.) fails, the CDM web site shows the overall job as a success. This c...
    4 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

    The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks. Once the scan is complete, the CDM proces...
    4 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    IBM Defender Alert Notifications limitation with 20 objects in an Email

    our backup failure alerts are being turned into incidents based on the Defender notification email settings. Ideally, each server failure within a protection group should generate a separate incident in ServiceNow. However, it appears Defender’s a...
    4 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Better multi-tenancy support User ID wise

    Hello, It would be great if the TS7700 provide improved multi-tenancy support for user IDs. For example, the ability to partition Hydra (Web) MI access so that individual users or clients can only view and manage their own “area” within the cluste...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    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...
    11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Data Protection for VMware - vSphere 9 support

    As we need to update to vSphere 9, could you please support this release? Data Protection for VMware supports vSphere 8.0 only (beginning with 8.1.17). https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/requirements-documents-ibm-storage-protect-virtual-environments
    18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

    Spectrum Protect for ERP should support HANA 2.0 SP08

    We are currently running SP for ERP 8.1.11, which supports SAP HANA 2.0 up to SP7. Our customer (and HANA support) wants to install SAP HANA 2.0 SP8, but we heard this is not supported with SP for ERP SAP HANA 8.1.11. Our SAP colleagues told us, t...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Submitted

    Integrate PB-HA volumes with Veeam Backup (qualification)

    Many customers use Veeam Backup and want to purchase a disk system for this application, which can be found on the "Veeam Alliance Partner integrations and qualifications" page https://www.veeam.com/solutions/alliance-partner/integrations-qualific...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Planned for future release

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