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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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Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
6 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Increase Safeguarded Copy Backup Capacity per volume beyond the current limit of 14.6 TiB for CKD volumes

When using maximum sized CKD EAV (Extended Address) volumes on the DS8K it would be useful to to have more than 14.6TiB of safeguarded volume capacity available. If these large volumes experience high change rates they can easily use up all of the...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Implement upstream NooBaa Changes that support recent Amazon S3 server/client changes

Recent client side changes to the aws cli utility as well as the Amazon boto3 python libraries have broken functionality of using the s3 gateway. From Amazon: In AWS CLI v2.23.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integri...
21 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Enable searching/filtering for VMware tags and folders during RG creation

A lot of customers already use VMware tags and VMware folders to organize their VMware environment which could be used to leverage during grouping of Resources. For creating Recovery groups, it would be helpful to search/filter for those within ma...
about 2 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Allow to remove commands from AlwaysOnServermon

The SP server AlwaysOnServermon is a very useful and well accepted support tool. Nevertheless, in some situations diagnostic SP server commands executed by servermon my cause trouble to productive SP server environments. In our case, SHOW ALLOC ca...
22 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

CES-S3 should support multiple groups per S3 account

Currently there's only support for a single group ID for each S3 account. This doesn't fit well with normal file system permissions where the same account might need access to several groups of different roles. F.ex. /gpfs/fs1/department might all...
22 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Allow multiple targets in an AFM-fileset (AFM-S3 only perhaps)

It would be good if we could have data coming from multiple sources in an AFM fileset. Perhaps a client has data that needs to be presented from NFS and S3. The application would have to talk to two different filesets to get data. The current use ...
18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

Enhance REST API Export a log file with keyword: latest

it would be useful to extend the GET /v1/logs/<filename>/export command so that you could enter a 'latest'-Tag as filename for example and then the ‘most recent - completed’ log is exported. GET /v1/logs/latest/export -> Exports the most ...
7 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Under review