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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

    customize commandapproval commands

    SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

    Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
    11 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

    PBHA: Update location on a set of hosts at the same time

    use case: the customer wants to be able to change the host location; with 180 hosts, it's not feasible to do it manually; request a possibility to filter hosts based on volume name and then multi-select to adapt; if that's not possible, filter on ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

    As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info

    FSSTRUCT and checksum in the /var/adm/ras need to be logged as ERRORS and not Warning or Info - These items can cause a cluster wide outage and should be logged as ERRORS. If they were logged as errors, we could pull them into our Kibana dashboard...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    DNS names instead of IP addresses in TS4500

    In TS4500 I can not use DNS names for define Syslog or encription server, Only IP addresses are allowed. It's problematic when using certificates signed by our authority and use IP address in SAN is not common.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    non-destructive later-on encryption activation

    When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Support DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Plus

    IBM Spectrum Protect Plus works perfectly with DB2 databases. Unfortunately for all our critical databases, which are replicated using DB2 HADR, backup and restore with Spectrum Protect Plus is currently not supported.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    Enhancement of Centreon Flashsystem Connector

    Centreon offers Onprem infrastructure monitoring. It benefits of a very old Stowize connector. It collects only basic metrics but nothing about ransomware or datareduction by example. https://docs.centreon.com/pp/integrations/plugin-packs/procedur...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    TS7: DELEXP Count Max

    The client expires more tape during the daily expiration process. The current max of 5000 can not keep up and they are having to add scratch tapes. We are looking for the ability to increase that number from 5000 to potentially 8000 to 10000 volumes.
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.