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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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DR feature in Fusion Access for SAN

Disaster Recovery (DR) feature in Fusion Access for SAN.
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Add filter to FAL (File Audit Log), so it's possible to ignor specific events

When FAL is enabled, it's all or nothing. When enabled in a bussy enviroemnt the number of events is high. It will be possitive if it was possible to ignoge specific events (ex. directory list) so the number of events could drop in number
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Support for RHEL 9

Now when SPP is not going to be future develop and we need to run a VMware Backups using Dark Site software we falling back to IBM Storage Protect for VMware and we have test it on a RedHat Enterprise Server 9.2 and it works fine accept the servic...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

Automate Fusion and OpenShift upgrades and cluster release via RedFish APIs

Reducing time to deploy new OpenShift clusters in Fusion and upgrade both OpenShift and Fusion via RedFish APIs could help increase deployment tasks and reduce human errors
about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Develop or update API to show compression information in GEN10 for pools and devices

This information will help to monitor the growth of the data in the DS8K. It's actually availlable in DSCLI but not in API.
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review