IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support Rolling Upgrades for MMS3/NooBaa Clusters

    Add support for performing rolling upgrades of MMS3/NooBaa cluster nodes while maintaining availability of the S3 service. MMS3/NooBaa currently relies on a shared filesystem for configuration and cluster-related data. The current architecture and...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Functionality already exists

    Changing an IBM DS8 running GKLM 4.1 with IPP (FIPS 140-2) change to GKLM 5.1 with KMIP (FIPS140-3) non-disruptively

    Clients wouldn't need to migrate all data off the array to change from FIPS 140-2 to FIPS 140-3
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    TS4300 Deep Archive Support

    I would like to request Deep Archive support for TS4300 by 4Q 2025.　Deep Archive support for TS4300 is required for implementation in the customer's PoC environment.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Future consideration

    Create tree view, persistent filters, or other technique to organize and sort protection groups and recovery jobs

    The data protection groups currently are all in a single view in the GUI. There are filters that do a plausible job, but the filter settings are frequently reset. Having a way to organize and filter the information in these views would make the pr...
    3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Data At Rest customized certificate : CN should be customizable

    When you want to implement Data At Rest on DS8xxx with key servers, you can use a customized certificate. The CN field value must be the storage facility image (SFI) ID for the storage system. For example, CN=2107-75NR699. This is mandatory, and i...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Add log rotation / size limit for cluster resource console.log (LogToFile), or disable it by default

    The IBM Storage Protect Windows Failover Cluster resource (custom resource type registered by the IBM Storage Protect installer during cluster configuration) includes private properties LogToFile and ConsoleLogFile. When LogToFile=1 (the default v...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Planning - Maintenance information- add the export button option

    Nice I can display when the storage is expiring but it would be nice to export the findings
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    FCM Drives on RDMA Enabled Expansion Enclosure

    While the FCM 4 NVMe drives has been a grand success & a milestone in the Storage Industry, we are noticing challenges with vertical scalability, among the customers, where they are unable to expand the FCM & NVMe Pool (using Expansions), ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Enhancing DCDM Error Logs with Standardized Error Codes

    In the current implementation of DCDM error logs often contain text messages that describe the issue. However, it is difficult to search for known issues or solutions without a standardized identifier. Also, it is difficult for support engineers t...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

    allow to update the Defender Connection Manager with a HTTPS certificate signed by client CA, 2 tier PKI, certificates must include correct CN and SAN with FQDN

    Related product: IBM Defender Connection Manager Idea: Establish a process in the Connection Manager GUI or on cmd line (similar to the backup / restore script) to create a new CSR = Certificate Signing Request and install a client provided certif...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Future consideration

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