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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    Update Storage Protect server to avoid using the S3:ListAllMyBuckets AWS Java SDK call

    Current version of Storage Protect server uses V1 of AWS SDK for Java library, the libary invokes ListAllMyBuckets function (SP server validate cloud operation),ListAllMyBuckets violates the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) and raises security ...
    7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Application-Aware Recovery Readiness Assessment for IBM Copy Services Manager

    I propose adding an Application-Aware Recovery Readiness Assessment capability to IBM Copy Services Manager to help organizations determine whether their protected workloads are truly prepared for disaster recovery and operational recovery scenari...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Submitted

    QoS su Mellanox high speed switches

    We have a client who has a 100% Cisco managed network infrastructure. So the request is to enable QoS directly on Mellanox high speed switches on HCI in order to have proper management capability on our switches following Cisco/Client QoS rules. T...
    12 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Allow copy suspend of PBHA partitions

    In a PBHA environment the partnership between Flashsystems can be stopped suspending the copy and then when it is partnership is re-started the copy resumes (no need to a full resync). It should be possible to stop the copy at partition level to a...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Get the HighWater mark of Safeguarded Copy used capacity

    We would like to know the maximal used of the Safeguarded Copy capacity for a volume. This will improve the monitoring of SafeguardedCopy and will help to define a good multiplier (and be sure we can backup the full volume, in addition to regular ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    Defender Data Protect - File/Folder-level recovery of AIX file-based backups from tape-based external targets IBM Storage Protect

    Current Limitation: Currently, file-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is either unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archive AIX objects using IBM Storage Protect. We request an enhancement of IBM Storage Defender ...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Reduce or eliminate cluster-wide NFS grace period impact during Ganesha/CES node restart

    In Storage Scale CES NFS environments, restarting a single Ganesha/CES node triggers an approximately 90-second NFS grace period that impacts client I/O across the NFS service. For high-availability environments, a single gateway node restart shou...
    2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Ability to set a legal notice on login page to GUI and TSSC

    Ability to set a legal notice on login to GUI and TSSC pages. A requirement is that we have a legal notice on the login pages to the GUI/TSSC to reinforce around the computer misuse act. This is a risk requirement of the organization backed by reg...
    9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Vates hypervisor support

    Vates is a VMware alternative based on a Xen server fork. This Hypervisor is regulary proposed like an altenative at VMware. French market is open to leave VMware but with supported storage solution.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Safeguarded Copy offload to Cloud via TCT

    We are looking to have the ability to offload Safeguarded Copies (LCP) to the cloud via TCT (preferably S3 cloud) and maintain the capability to create a recovery copy from any of the offloaded Safeguarded Copies. Today due to physical capacity li...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

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