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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    Safe Bucket Policy Handling with generateBucketName

    Environment: IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation / ODF 4.19.1 Rook-Ceph Operator Buckets provisioned via ObjectBucketClaims (OBCs) GitOps automation using Helm + Argo CD generateBucketName used for dynamic bucket namin Problem Summary: Destructive ...
    5 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

    Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Automate Fusion and OpenShift upgrades and cluster release via RedFish APIs

    Reducing time to deploy new OpenShift clusters in Fusion and upgrade both OpenShift and Fusion via RedFish APIs could help increase deployment tasks and reduce human errors
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Update DSCLI windows client with Developer Signatures for Win 11 Security

    The current DSCLI client will not install in Windows 11 environments secured with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, as the installer is not signed by a developer certificate. After moving to Windows 11, our storage admin team (4+ admins) is unable t...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Enable inline compression of files at ingestion for IBM Storage Scale

    Our client needs to have the option to compress some well-known files inline, at ingestion -first write- time. Their goal is to enable this compression on the gpfs clients. They use remote-mounts to connect to their gpfs filesystems (having ESS as...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhancement to Fusion HCI GDP metro DR

    Fusion HCI Metro DR for VM requires admin to manually copy the VM yaml to DR HCI during failover. This is not automated and error prone. Customer who use HCI for VM, will run thousands of VMs. This is not practical to do it manually. Request to au...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Functionality already exists

    Aredent Health - Dell Customer - Optimize Masking View Creation by Resolving HostGroups During Restore

    During restore, CDM needs to map LUNs to the hosts. If there are three separate hosts, CDM will create a masking view for each, which means: 2 Storage Groups × 3 Hosts = 6 masking views. But If their hosts are under a parent HostGroup, CDM will re...
    6 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Please continue supporting the TS2900 in IBM Storage Archive v2.4.8 and later.

    Supported tape libraries - IBM Documentation https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-archive-le/2.4.8?topic=planning-supported-tape-libraries IBM Storage Archive LE supports the following IBM® tape libraries: IBM Diamondback Tape Library (IBM LTO 9 an...
    6 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Submitted

    CNSA - support Kubernetes on Azure Linux

    IBM Storage Scale will be able to provide the high-performant, scalable, and highly-available storage subsystem to meet the I/O requirement for containerized AI workload running on large GPU clusters with Azure Linux.
    11 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    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) ...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

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