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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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Data collector incorporate in DS8K

Similar to CSM, Storage Insight Data collector can be built in the DS8K HMC by default for customer. This will allow the customer to easily consume the Storage Insight Service. This will increase Storage Insight usage and that will benefit the fut...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Support BSD groups semantics

Customer is migrating from Isilon, which supports configuring the BSD group semantincs meaning that new files inherit the group id of the parent group. Some file systems on linux support the "grpid" or "bsdgroups" mount option to enable same seman...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Output of prepare command need to be send via OC email or copied to an S3 target to support Airgap protection

Output of prepare command need to be send via Operation Center email report (for multiple servers) or copied to an S3 target (e.g. prepare devclass=cloud) to support Airgap protection. Optionally the S3 bucket should be WORM protected.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

TLS Email Support

Today does IBM Storage Protect OC has support to email reports over email, but this hasn't been updated for a wild now and the supported protocol is a unsecure SMTP port 25 communcation and we can always create a SMTP tunnel to a Cloud SMTP Server...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives

The evolution request on the IBM TS4300 tape library is to have the possibility of defining a logical library with only cartridge slots but without tape drives. This improvement would allow to have an active logical partition which enables cartrid...
about 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Planned for future release

Stop automatically disassociation from SLA Policy

If for example one has DNS issue (it happens) and the SPP appliance fail to resolve, lets say a specific fileshare that is associated with a SLA.Then the SPP appliance desides that this fileshare is not longer there and removes it from the SLA..Th...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

TS7700 improve cloude connection on dedicated NIC

Currently to implement Cloud connection from FS7700 to any cloud provider the same NIC used for grid replication is used. To improve performances it is helpful to have a dedicated connectivity with additional NIC within VED
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

CNSA HashiCorp Vault Encryption Key Server Support

Add support in CNSA for using HashiCorp Vault encryption key server with Scale CNSA. Currently supported in normal Scale but not in CNSA.
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Sync and Async DR for External/Remote Scale (Global Data Platform)

This feature request is to add sync(metro) and async(regional) DR support for Fusion software with remote scale (global data platform) storage.
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

EasyTier Tier priority

Depending on the configuration or status of the pool, EasyTier might place initial data on a lower. This can result in poor performance as new data is added to a system.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration