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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    Improve DS8000 Rest API capabilities

    REST API the current trend for automation. It provides a flexible, scalable, and easy-to-use way to retrieve and automate tasks that can be accessed from any platform or programming language. Enhancing Rest API on DS8000 will enable end users to s...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration

    Update Certificate without restarting Storage Protect instance

    Currently if the certificate is going to be replaced by a new one, this operation requires an instance stop and start. The certificate insertion into the certificate DB can be done at any time, also setting it as the default certificate. But the i...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Under review

    HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

    TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Group SP server messages into categories ,specially messages related to CIA (confidentiality, Integratory and availability).

    Toronto Dominion bank ( TD) forward SP server msg into their monitoring system ( splunk ), they have a requirement to forward the msg into specific categories, for example: msg relate to CIA (confidentiality, Integratory and availability). so that...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Don't raise warnings about volumes with "deleting" status being offline

    If a volume is deleted while there are dependent snapshots it remains in "deleting" status until those snapshots expire or are removed via CLI. There is an idea to improve UI handling of those snapshots (SCSI-I-1277), but it does not address the a...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    failover of the VIP interface in the event of a failure of the physical network interface carrying the VIP

    On the FlashSystem 9500 and 5300 series, the VIP interface does not fail over in the event of a loss of the service interface carrying the VIP or other Ethernet service interfaces. The VIP only fails over when the controller carrying the VIP inter...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    DS8K - Dual Control for operational activities

    Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the DS8K HMC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    DS8K - Single Sign ON (SSO) with OIDC

    Add SSO support via OIDC to externalize authentication and enable multi factor authentication on the DS8K HMC
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    DS8K - Copy Services - Mirroring Path GUI improvement

    Currently in the Copy Services menu the 'mirroring path' reports the current secondary site with a wrong status. As visible in the attached screen print (visible here: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DS80-I-270 ), only the current prim...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Is a defect

    Request to add a feature that allows administrators to check the amount of data stored in each bucket or user/user group.

    When providing Deep Archive like a cloud service, it is necessary to check the usage amount for each user with administrator commands and charge according to capacity, as well as issue warnings for “excessive use.”
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Future consideration

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