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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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Allow separation of Fusion Data Foundation service upgrades from general Fusion upgrade

Allow used to disconnect / separate Fusion Data Foundation upgrades from the general Fusion operator upgrades. Data Foundation must be max N-1 rev from OpenShift, this limitation either prevents and sometimes causes OpenShift upgrades to fail in t...
7 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Support modern SSO protocols

TS4500 only supports LDAP & Kerberos, this request is for integration with SSO using modern protocols such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and/or OIDC.
7 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Request to add a feature that allows administrators to check the amount of data stored in each bucket or user/user group.

When providing Deep Archive like a cloud service, it is necessary to check the usage amount for each user with administrator commands and charge according to capacity, as well as issue warnings for “excessive use.”
7 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Future consideration

Integration between Defender DRS and IBM Concert

There is more and more focus on security, there is a need to automatic information gathering for everything that is helpful to manage CVE and Security Certificate (SSL/TLS) . DRS is being connected to different Data sources, from infrastucture com...
7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Better handling of Install Directory Size limitation during CSM upgrade

When CSM server is upgraded, if CSM identifies that the install library size is more than a value (in case of 6.3.14 it is 17,350MB), it just throws an error message and ends without further indication on what are the resolution possibilities. Her...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

As the TSSC does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to man...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Certificates - allow selection of multiple entries

Certificate management shall switch from 'radio' button to 'check-box' to allow multiple entries to be deleted with a single click. Currently I have to select a single entry, click delete, select the next one, click delete and so on. If check boxe...
8 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

LDAP Direct Authentication - Multiple placeholders strings for Direct Auth

LDAP/AD environments are sometimes complicated and users can exist in multiple OUs and Domains. To remove the necessity for an LDAP bind ID we would need to have the ability to search the LDAP forest or allow for multiple placeholder strings. Plea...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

In non-GM sessions, make the SUSPEND command a two-step process

For non-GM sessions (Migration and Metro Mirror), make the SUSPEND command not appear in the default list of commands. I would suggest to add a Session Option in the Session Properties which would have to be selected in order for the SUSPEND comma...
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Resource Quota for Fusion Backup service

Currently, it is hard to estimate the amount of resources that Fusion backup service will consume. This makes it hard to size and license for the OCP infrastructure required. Will be good if we can allow user to set a resource quota for Fusion bac...
8 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration