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

    Showing 6006

    Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    Scale Storage Native Driver for Mainframe zOS

    We are trying to get access to the mainframe storage on the midrange end to allow Data and AI tools like Content Aware Storage and Watson Knowledge Catalog. Following are the gaps: 1. There is no native driver for zOS. Current support is limited t...
    7 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Extend node replication to allow it to also replicate decommissioned state of nodes

    In a replication environment (data and metadata is replicated from source to target server) it is currently not possible to "decomm node" for nodes that are replicated. One has to first disable replication for nodes before being able to decommissi...
    7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Safe Bucket Policy Handling with generateBucketName

    Environment: IBM Storage Fusion Data Foundation / ODF 4.19.1 Rook-Ceph Operator Buckets provisioned via ObjectBucketClaims (OBCs) GitOps automation using Helm + Argo CD generateBucketName used for dynamic bucket namin Problem Summary: Destructive ...
    7 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    CNSA - support Kubernetes on Azure Linux

    IBM Storage Scale will be able to provide the high-performant, scalable, and highly-available storage subsystem to meet the I/O requirement for containerized AI workload running on large GPU clusters with Azure Linux.
    13 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

    All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
    7 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Options for SPS Offload

    The tape_backup function creates a "db2 backup database" command for the offload of a FlashCopy image to TSM. This works fine but I am not able to add any backup options to this command. It is assembled by SPS. But it would be very useful to add o...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Submitted

    mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

    Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
    9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 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.