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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Multi-factor authentication for Storage Deep Archive

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support Multi-factor authentication for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind security enhancement, and would greatly i...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Future consideration
111 VOTE

Provide Support for Tiering to Tape for Spectrum Protect Plus Data

Spectrum Protect does not allow Data from Spectrum Protect Plus getting tiered from Container Pool to Tape, at current only Tiering to a Cloud Pool, but only to cloud storage classes that support the rapid recall of data.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Future consideration

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) Future consideration

REST API Certificate Renewals for TSSC

In an enterprise environment we need to automate the renewals of our certificates for the TS7700 estate.
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

DS8K Logical Configuration backup & restore functionality

Hello,I would like to ask to implement IBM as a vendor supported way to create backup about DS8K storage's logical configuration, with option to restore it.The configuration backup should be possible to be created from both DSCLI and DS8000 Storag...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Deep Archive and Vaulting

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently include support for off-site or out-of-library tape vaulting . Although this functionality is not used on a daily basis, it could be very useful for customers who need to export ca...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Future consideration

Deep Archive and QoS at bucket level

IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support QoS. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring bandwidth throttling applied at bucket level, and would greatly increase the adoption of this technol...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive Future consideration

Ability to set a legal notice on login page to GUI and TSSC

Ability to set a legal notice on login to GUI and TSSC pages. A requirement is that we have a legal notice on the login pages to the GUI/TSSC to reinforce around the computer misuse act. This is a risk requirement of the organization backed by reg...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration

Task import/export feature

It will be helpful to have the ability to export and import schedule tasks. This will facilitate the creation of schedules as well as the ability to copy them to different servers. Currently creating multiple, complex multi task schedule is time c...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

CSM Heap Usage Monitoring

In mixed storage environments where a single CSM instance manages multiple sessions, especially with SGC, administrators do not have real-time visibility into current Java heap utilization. As a result, there is no reliable way to determine whethe...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration