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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    Tape Library Support

    Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

    Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

    IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Future consideration

    Offline/manual install of Defeder Sensors in VMs

    Defender Sensors are currently only installable from the DRS UI. Installation/upgrade from DRS require network connectivity and FW openings from the on-premises Connection Manager(s) directly or through a Defender Sensor Control node to the VM(s) ...
    11 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

    Include more useful data into the Call home automatically collected data

    Hello, I am exploring whether it will be possible to include more useful data and sufficient data into the FTDC data that is being collected upon call home creation. Currently the information within those files is pretty limited and not sufficient...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Would like Library Request parameters made available through RESTful API endpoints

    Today, all TS7700 parameters that can be seen via the LI REQ,cluster,SETTING andLI REQ,cluster,SETTING2 commands cannot be retrieved or reported on via RESTful APIs. This information is of extreme importance when verifying device configurations fo...
    4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    ACL support for Spectrum Scale file systems

    Spectrum Protect does fully support Spectrum Scale filesystems. If special attributes of files in this file systems aremodified like setting or changing ACLs, on the next backup run thecomplete file will be backed up again, though only metadata wh...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Ability to set an alternate directory for the creation of EPIC, iris.cpf file, within a properties file on the CDM server.

    This ability will help us make better use of the CDM product and avoid failing or long running jobs.
    8 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Reduce the requirements for Microsoft Exchange

    Some other backup solutions doesn't need the whole admin rights for Exchange. Example VEEAM: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/required_permissions.html?zoom_highlight=exchange&ver=120 Commvault: https://documentation.commvault....
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Support for VMware v9.0

    Support for VMware Cloud foundation v9.0
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1

    Display data collection permission information in Storage system table for support role

    Support role can see data collection permission information only when going to System actions > Get logs. It would be great if permission information could be seen in Storage system table or under Log access in settings.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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