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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Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Multi-session retrieve functionality

Similar to an older idea Multi-session retrieve [SPF-I-947] I would very like IBM to reevaluate and hopefully support multi session support for Archive retrieve workloads. With the current implementation it is not feasible to archive data to ISP a...
21 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Track data collector upgrade attempts (successful and failed)

Storage Insights records the time of the last data collector upgrade and upgrade version on the data collectors panel, but it does not record task activity or audit log entries for attempts to upgrade the data collectors. This activity should be r...
21 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SP DP for SQL on windows server 2025

Having customers already installing server 2025, and are in need of a working DP from SP.
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Submitted

Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

S3 API Signature listing for Storage Scale documentation

Visa is currently testing integration with an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD deployed with an IBM Storage Scale System. Visa is going to test data movement between the IBM Storage Scale System and an S3 target as part of a PoC. Visa requires the S3 API signa...
about 2 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

Include affected resources in alert Payload to ServiceNow

Upon initial configuration of the ServiceNow integration, it appears that affected resources are not included in the alert payload that is sent to ServiceNow. Current implementation only appears to have: { "severity", "subcategory", "name", "occur...
27 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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