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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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    DHBA Command Support on FlashSystem

    Dear IBM Development Team, We would like to formally submit this IBM Idea / Request for Enhancement (RFE) to request consideration of an enhancement related to FlashSystem behavior identified through an IBM AIX support case. Background During the ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

    Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    ACTIVE DIRECTORY BACKUP FOR PROTECT PLUS

    One of the most asked feature by business partners and customers is support of Active Directory backup and granular recovery of AD with Protect Plus. Almost every our competitor has AD backup granular recovery of its objects.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    MFA support with IBM Verify

    Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Enable Encrypted Email (SMTP over TLS) Relay Support on IBM TS7700

    Add support for encrypted SMTP email relay (STARTTLS and/or SMTPS) for TS7700 system-generated email notifications, including alerts, events, and health status messages. Enterprise security policy requires all system and infrastructure email commu...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

    Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Add ACME client for DS8K HMC and DS8K Storage Manager

    Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the DS8K this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Add a SYSLOG option for console logs

    In addition to having the option to view the console logs in the user interface add an option to offload to a syslog server similar to hardware platforms (DS8, VTS, etc).
    over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    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...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Planned for future release

    Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

    Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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