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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Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Have CDM support use DB_UNIQUE_NAME identifier for discovery of Oracle data guarded databases instead of DB_NAME (or as an alternative option)

Any customer using Oracle Data Guard would find this useful. All databases within a dataguard configuration must have the same db_name value, it's an Oracle requirement. In order to distinguish one database from another within the configuration, t...
4 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
17 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to use the OC Autodeploy feature offline for client upgrades

Currently, for the OC Auto-deploy feature to upgrade existing clients it requires internet access and connectivity to the IBM repository. I think it will be a good idea to create a repository and manually upload the deployment packages.
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Graphical topology view VM -> datstore -> ESX -> Storage lun -> IBM FS9500 array.

vCenter, Hosts, and Virtual Machines associated can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu table. If user clicks on a specific virtual machine, then under “Internal/Virtual Machine/ Related resources” panel it gives details about HBA, Driv...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Include rpm package audispd-plugins into Storage Scale System bundle to improve audit logging capabilities.

In an regulated environment it is required to configure several audit rules at OS level, to be compliant. To forward the resulting audit events to syslog, it is required to install the rpm package audisp-plugins, which is not part of the current I...
5 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters - mmhealth

Hi In order to minimize the risk of system down due to heat problem. It will be great if mmhealth will monitor the temperature of the Mellanox adapters. This can be done by running the following script: #!/bin/bashfor i in `lspci|grep -i mellanox|...
6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Easier filters for logical and physical switches in Spectrum Control

Add an easier way to filter logical and physical switches when viewing in Spectrum Control. There is a column called "virtual" with a yes/no answer that can help you sort the list. That helps you separate them from each other, but they are all sti...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

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