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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    SVC GUI SCU calculator

    SVC SCU calculation is physical capacity-based with a disk type conversion factor value (Calculation Terms: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=L-PGBC-EPMNYG&lc=en). SVC GUI show the compressed space mounted; this is higher fro...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection

    One of our customers backs up their Microsoft SQL Server environments using IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection. Unfortunately, Microsoft SQL Server 2025 is not supported by the current ISP for VE version 8.2.2 with...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Submitted

    Native Path/Pattern Exclusion for Dynamic Container Filesystems in BA Client

    Modern Linux server environments running container orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Podman) dynamically generate and tear down ephemeral virtual filesystems (e.g., overlay2, fuse-overlayfs, tmpfs) under predictable runtime directories...
    5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Ability to exclude specific volumes from PBHA synchronization for hosts within the same cluster

    In a VMware host pool, we have a Microsoft SQL Server Always On configuration that replicates data directly between our two sites. These hosts are also part of a cluster managed by PBHA, which independently replicates the data between the two IBM ...
    9 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Add support for TOTP-based multifactor authentication for FS5300

    We would like to see support for multifactor authentication (MFA) using TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) added to the IBM FlashSystem 5300. TOTP is a widely adopted authentication mechanism and has the advantage of not requiring an Internet con...
    9 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    DS8000 Safeguarded Copy (SGC) offload to TS7700 VTL

    DS8000 users are driving multiple Safeguarded Copy (SGC) cycles per day - and are keeping many days worth of those SGC copies on the DS8000... but many have also expressed wanting to keep 'more' copies on TS7700 VTL. For example, perhaps making a ...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 15 Functionality already exists

    Enable Full Export and Correlation of Affected Files and Alerts in DMS Anti-Ransomware UI

    Currently, when an anomaly or ransomware detection event occurs within the DMS Security Anti-Ransomware interface, the “Affected Files” page does not provide a supported mechanism to export or download the complete list of affected files. At this ...
    4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

    Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
    6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    IBM Fusion version selection - need a way to access previous version from the Fusion operator

    The solution supports an on-premises deployment of IBM Software Hub / Cloud Pak for Data (ISH/CPD) on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP), leveraging IBM Fusion Data Foundation and Backup & Restore services. The deployment consists of both a Production en...
    22 days ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    During configuration of Storage Protect snapshot, if /etc/inittab already have processes added, it should continue with a message, and not exit the setup with a failure.

    When Storage Protect Snapshot for DB2 setup is run (setup_db2.sh), after setting the profile parameters for the backup and clones, a question is asked regarding inittab entries: "Do you want IBM Storage Protect Snapshot to create the inittab entri...
    about 1 month ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

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