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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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List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
29 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Performance tables to have a Totals row at bottom to sum the values

On all of the performance tables, it would be nice to have a "Totals" row at bottom to sum the values of each column.
29 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Support for Tanzu TKGi

Some bigger customers are heavily invested in Tanzu, this includes Tanzu TKGi. Right now we don't support this with Defender Data Protect.
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Support simultanious integration of Storage Scale cluster to Windows AD Domain while Linux servers are joined to an IDM domain

Protocol nodes can authorize user file access through Windows Active Directory by joining a Storage Scale cluster to a Windows Active Directory Domain. Unfortunately, IBM does not support such a connection if Storage Scale Linux servers are alread...
about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

More functionality for ESS/SCALE

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation:And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots Ov...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

Support for Ubuntu 22.04

As Ubuntu 20.04 support comes to an end in April 2025 please could you provide support for Ubuntu 22.04 for Spectrum Protect Server as per the previous versions listed here IBM Storage Protect 8.1.25 Server Requirements and Support for Linux x86_64
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

When IBM spectrum protect baclient will support SNAPDIFF backup on NETAPP version 9.13.y?

The BA client version 8.1.13 (or later) up to but not including version 8.1.23 supports NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.9.y (where y is 0 or higher). Starting with version 8.1.23 (or later), support extends to NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.12.y (whe...
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted