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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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CNSA on OpenShift on bare-metal along with InfiniBand

In order to implement a high performant and reliable infrastructure it is required to support CNSA on bare-metal OpenShift with InfiniBand by June 2023. Workaround of CNSA on VMware with InfiniBand is not supported, because OpenShift does not supp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

Support Encryption key rotation in Fusion HCI GDP

The Fusion HCI GDP offers data encryption at rest through the integration with Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM). In accordance with customer's security policy, regular encryption key rotation is required.We suggest adding key rotation into Fu...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopie...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 4 Future consideration

Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Make IBM Tape boxes able to generate a CSR much like their DASD counterparts

The IBM Tape boxes (TS7) currently do not allow the generation of a CSR (certificate signing request). This means you have to generate a certificate off of the box and upload both private and public keys. This is a gross misuse of security and I c...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Enhance Interface of CES-S3 to add a functionality to create automaticaly a fileset for the bucket path, if a s3 user use s3 mb cmd over the AWS cli

With this feature we can use the filesetquota function, snapshot-funktion to maintain the usage and backup of the underlying fs.
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for vCloud Director

We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration

Improve the Logical Path Change alert to be more specific.

Currently, when a connection is temporarily dropped, we receive an email alert (like the one shown below) to notify us that a path has gone down. In the DS8K log, we can see when the path goes down, & when comes back up, but the alerts show th...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration