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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    TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

    SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
    11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Add observability and alerting for queue full conditions on IBM Flashsytem arrays

    Problem statement. Pool response times reach up to 100ms but there is no insight as to the cause. IBM support were engaged and identified the cause to be queue full condition on the front-end per TS019735977.It is a frustration to know there is a ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Ability to modify or add a fcport of a host that is in a partition.

    Assuming PBHA and\or PBR: It may happen that a FC HBA of a host is replaced or that a HBA is redeployed. Or a host has already been created with 1 FC port. In these situations it is not possible to adjust this.
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Call home for Storage Defender

    IBM Storage Defender does not yet have an integrated call home solution to send hardware logs to IBM Support and thus facilitate the replacement of defective equipment. In this case, I suggest creating a solution that identifies if the client is u...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

    ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

    The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

    The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

    Easy way open IBM case for IBM Brocade SAN switch via Insight manager

    Currently, we have different models of Brocade SAN switches and FCIP routers purchased from IBM. The challenge is that when we need to open a case for hardware or software issues, it must be done through the IBM PMR portal. If this process could b...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

    The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

    add graphs to reports

    when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Spectrum Protect Plus hardware snapshot support

    Spectrum Protect Plus currently do not support hardware snapshots as the current Spectrum Protect Snapshot a.k.a. FCM software does - and current Spectrum CDM has no option to recover (flash-revert) the production copy from a snapshot.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

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