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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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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.

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Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
26 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

REST-API request for GET a list of permissions for roles/custom roles

Security department needs to report weekly a status of important security parameters to the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). We need REST-API to query which user/group has which role. All return formats should be in JSON and YAML fo...
2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Frame swap challenge when using Delayed Premigration. I call it "Autonomic prepare of frame swap when using Delay Premigration”

Below idea is related to frame swap from old TS7700T subsystem to new TS7700T. Meaning virtual tape having a backend Tape Library(ie TS4500) and backend Pdrives/Pvols. When preparing frame swap, due to hardware renewal, you need to be well prepare...
2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Under review

Additional OS Support for Storage Defender Sensors

IBM Storage Defender includes Sensors that are invented by IBM Research and are first active AI-backed threat detection against malware filesystem activity tye of sensors in market. The additional file-level ransomware active threat detection prov...
about 1 month ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Upgrade of ISP4VE 8.1.23 to 8.1.23.x deletes key.jks truststore

The upgrade from ISP4VE 8.1.23.0 to 8.1.23.x deletes the C:\IBM\SpectrumProtect\webserver\usr\servers\veProfile\resources\security\key.jks truststore file and the steps which are documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spfve/8.1.23?topic=cssdpv-...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Safe Guarded Copy - Enhance the Product to Allow SGC to Reduce or Increase Multipliers as Data on Volumes Increases or Decreases.

The amount of data on our volumes can fluctuate up or down daily. A multiplier of three on a volume may be sufficient one day but be too small the next day, resulting in a failed backup. We then must increase the multiplier on that volume to preve...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Planned for future release

Integration with Storage Insights

Hello Product Team, It is an imperative that our solutions have the ability to be easy managed by our customers, adding the fact that Mainframe customers are contracting younger professionals that are much more familiar to interact with web interf...
4 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2

Support ISC running on VMware ESXi 8.0

According to the support page, VMware ESXi 5.5.x, 6.0.x, 6.5.x, 6.7.x, 7.0.x are supported but not ESXi 8.0.x IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.x - Server Platforms https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-spectrum-control-54x-server-platforms#shyperv For lon...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

[Copy] Open AOS for TS4500 and TS770 via TSSC REST API Call

(I have opened this case in the TS4500 product area because I cannot select the TSSC (TS3000) in the product area in the IDEAS portal) We want to open AOS (Assist on Site) access via a REST API call to automate and speed up internal processes. The...
about 2 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Under review

Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review