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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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Add IP port utilization to Storage Insights

Currently we can only monitor FC port utilization using SI so we're completely blind when it comes to ISCSI port utilization and need to contact our network team to monitor usage which delays incident resolution. It would be great to be able to mo...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Provide support for Performance Graphs in the Manager for containers (buckets), as currently exists for vaults.

In COS vault mode we utilize the performance graphs within the Manager Vault page. RBC runs both Vault and Container (no mixed mode) clusters. Having the ability to view the same Performance Graphs at either at the Storage Account or preferably th...
3 months ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Scale System HashiCorp Self Encrypting Drive Support

Add Self Encrypting Drive Support for HashiCorp Vault
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

ESS release note includes OS package list

ESS release note includes OS package list. Currently OS image in ESS package is "cut-down" version in order to reduce its size. Our customer has upgraded legacy ESS to 6.1.2.7 then 6.1.2.8 . Every time, ESS upgrade process is suspended because of ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Require an option to update IBM Spectrum Control authentication ID from local / Domain ID to a Domain service ID ( Non Interactive)

We need to have a local user ID (with non expiring and no special character password) to install DB2 and SC. However as per the customer security guidelines we (Infra Support) no longer have rights to use or create local user ID on the Customer Ma...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Swagger support for REST APIs

Add support for Swagger so that COS devices and config can be integrated with Swagger.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Certificate key authentication supported for SFTP log transfers

Customer would like to use an SSL Public Key option for the configured SFTP connection in the 'Settings--Support--Logs--Log Collection--Log Collection Configuration--Log Destination' Log Collection Configuration page. There is an SSL/TLS certifica...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Test function for callhome setting

We have callhome function, but there is no test button that customer can test communication between their system and callhome server.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Bring more parity from Manager to Storage Account Admin portal for managing Container Vault

The request is to enhance the Storage Account Administration Portal to bring it more in line and parity with feature/functionality offered for Standard Vaults. Things like being able to track throughput with a chart (like aggreate Accesser through...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Support custom certs on endpoints using Vault Proxy

The Vault Proxy feature does not work if the Accesser Device (or Access Pool) is using Customer signed certificates. The feature will only work when the IBM signed certificates are present. For customers that require using their own organization's...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted