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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    Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights

    Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights. This is a requirement by our Cyber team to control access to our Storage Insights instance. We had opened TS021203790 to enable this feature, but the responded that the option is not available...
    16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Fail job when cleanup fails

    Currently a CDM job will import file systems, scan for threats, and then remove the file systems. However, if the cleanup (removing file systems, removing volume groups/disks/etc.) fails, the CDM web site shows the overall job as a success. This c...
    16 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

    The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks. Once the scan is complete, the CDM proces...
    16 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Customer requesting support of TOTP/SAML

    So we will be moving to Ping, the date is still TBD. That said yes that will be of interest to us when we implement Ping.. But the gap on SSH access will still be a concern. As far as other products that do this. Cohesity has pretty extensive supp...
    16 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    IBM Defender Alert Notifications limitation with 20 objects in an Email

    our backup failure alerts are being turned into incidents based on the Defender notification email settings. Ideally, each server failure within a protection group should generate a separate incident in ServiceNow. However, it appears Defender’s a...
    16 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

    Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
    17 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Predictable handling of encrypted EXT4 directories on Linux

    For now the error when accessing an encrypted EXT4 directory by the backup client can be ignored by a setting in dsm.sys (see support case). But this leads to the effect, that an encrypted directory will be considered in a backup if the encryption...
    19 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Interval of "compressionThreshold"

    In CVC 375851, DS8k CLI Development had asked to address these 3 requests from the customer via RFE ----------------------------------------------------------------1.) The command of "chextpool -compressionThreshold nn Px" is already included in t...
    20 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

    Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
    21 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Support for vApp options during restoration

    We noticed that after a restore, vapp Options are disabled with the loss of the settings which was previously defined on these vapp options.
    21 days ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

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