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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Defender Data Protect/Replica

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Being able to trigger/initiate replication from a target server

This idea is following a discussion with a customer who is asking our data protection solutions ( being Storage Protect and Data Protect) to have the ability to trigger data replication in a way that replication is initiated by the target replicat...
about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Not under consideration

Data Protect/DMS - support denser x86 servers, external JBODs, Fibre Channel attached storage (i.e. FlashSystem)

Ready Nodes not dense enough per RU in current iteration for large enterprises. Number of nodes also adds number of networking connections needed / TOR switches. This adds complexity and cost. We want to use dense COS-like tech with external JBODs...
about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

Defender Data Protect backup all Kubernetes OpenShift namespaces

Openshift namespaces which starts with a preffix "openshift-" are system namespaces and usually they do not contain any persistent volume claim or any significant YAML object which can't be reproduce on another cluster. On the other hand, there is...
10 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

Data Management Service: would like to see cluster claim simplified and multi-platform

The process for claiming a cluster to the DMS portal needs to be simplified and multi-platform. Windows users without Windows Subsystem for Linux installed would have no way of claiming a cluster.
about 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0