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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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Increase in the number of components analyzed simultaneously

Hello Development team. I would like to suggest an improvement in the Spectrum Control. When some situation that needs a deeper analysis happens, like a performance problem, it is useful to see the behavior of the components. At this point, the Sp...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Provide governance details in Defender Data Resiliency Service for SaaS based application like Storage Protect for Public Cloud

Doing so would enable clients to use Defender to use "Governance" for SaaS based applications and broaden support from the usual on-prem application/infrastructure.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Submitted

Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

mmdsh rest api command

With the transition from ssh-based commanding to the Rest API, the functionality of mmdsh needs to be maintained. Currently, this command's functionality will no longer be supported once a cluster is migrated off of ssh-based communications. Many ...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

A potential improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault. Related to TS7700, RMM and TCDB.

This Idea is regarding z Cyber Vault and tape usage. An improvements for tape access from z Cyber Vault which is a hot topic in many installations these years. IBM have delivered a solution where we can use tape actively in a z Cyber Vault - safe ...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Under review

IBM Defender Sentinel - Sensor for Storage Scale / GPFS filesystems

We have a lot of customers with GPFS where we can see to sell Sentinel, but we need a support of filesystem agent. GPFS has safe guarded snapshots and policy engine, so it would be fine to use those features to implement security scans.
about 1 month ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

Allow hide TIP events only for specific nodes instead of all entities

TIP events are very useful to give an advice for some parameters to have configuration best practices and to achieve best performance on Scale Clusters. For example : hc_alert_scalehc_00006 = NumaInterleave is not enabled on a multi-CPU system hc_...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 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 2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

Implementation of DIMM error checking at IBM Storage Scale Systems

It would be helpful to implement an DIMM error checking, which is raising a warning, when a memory DIMM is throwing to much errors.In the current ESS versions, we don't have such an checking in place. Massive recoverable DIMM errors will not be re...
20 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review