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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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Make IBM Tape boxes able to generate a CSR much like their DASD counterparts

The IBM Tape boxes (TS7) currently do not allow the generation of a CSR (certificate signing request). This means you have to generate a certificate off of the box and upload both private and public keys. This is a gross misuse of security and I c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Provide backup and restore capabilities for data residing on S3 on/off prem buckets with Defender Data Protect

Many customers are using object storage thru S3 as repository for important data like surveillance, financial documents and other critical workloads. Although object storage has its own resiliency features, they're most liked focused on replicatio...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Planned for future release

DS8000 REST API New functions

Expand the DS8k REST API to include more functions that are provided today with DSCLI.
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support RHEL as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server

Now, it is only supported SLES 15.4 as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server. But, my client and many customers in the world are using RHEL(x86_64) as OS for IA-Linux environment. Providing additional SLES, not RHEL is an unacceptable requirement fo...

Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
3 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

SPP - Support Incremental Backup of Exchange DBs on ReFS

Customer has recently replaced Commvault with IBM SPP. Only Full Exchange backups are working as the customer is using ReFS.Also, since SPP is using VSS of the Exchange Server, backup of the 2nd Exchange DB cannot be started unless the backup of f...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Quota calculation and capacity presentation based on files size

User quota and file set quota are calculated based on allocated capacity on GPFS (kb_allocated). If files are moved to an external tier, e.g. by transparent cloud tiering, the file system utilisation will be decreased. Storage admins should have t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration