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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    Re-enable Service Access before finisching system setup with the Initial Setup Assistant.

    Current Easy Setup flow prevents direct access to Service Assistant, requiring complex workarounds for code upgrades and hardware verification before cluster creation. However only in Service Assistant you can get information like WWPNs, MAC addre...
    3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Enable sensor deployment with a short target hostname

    Based on a recent experience I would like to propose, that sensor deployment should be enabled for target hosts using short name instead of FQDN as hostname. With short name as hostname Ansible playbook seems to create an inventory file with short...
    4 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Allow manual input of Storage Insights Tenant ID in system setup wizard (FS9600 9.1.2.1)

    Current implementation of FS9600 system setup wizard (9.1.2.1) requires internet access for the browser, apparently only for retrieving the customer's Storage Insight Tenant ID to be used in the subsequent underlying "chcloudcallhome -sitenantid x...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Storage Copy Data Management should support authentication using RedHat IDM

    We are using a lot of IBM products and we use a RedHat based IdM (LDAP) server for centralized user-management. The information in LDAP decides what systems someone can login too, and also which role/permissions they get. This works for IBM produc...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Enable NDMP NAS Restore to Alternate Filer Without Modifying Production Datamover Configuration

    Background / Context The customer currently, restoring NDMP NAS backups to an alternate NetApp filer requires modifying the production datamover configuration (IP address and drive path). As documented in the IBM technote: https://www.ibm.com/supp...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Submitted

    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...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    No follow up email after a data collector upgrade issue gets autofixed

    Clients have notified me that that they are confused, when they receive an email for a failed data collector upgrade and they start investigating why this has happened. At the same time, it appears that the issue is autoxed and the collected ...
    5 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (SGC) offload to TS7700 VTL

    DS8000 users are driving multiple Safeguarded Copy (SGC) cycles per day - and are keeping many days worth of those SGC copies on the DS8000... but many have also expressed wanting to keep 'more' copies on TS7700 VTL. For example, perhaps making a ...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 15 Functionality already exists

    IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

    Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection

    One of our customers backs up their Microsoft SQL Server environments using IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection. Unfortunately, Microsoft SQL Server 2025 is not supported by the current ISP for VE version 8.2.2 with...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Submitted

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