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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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Provide ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage.

We need the option ENABLECLOUDDATALock on cloud container stgpools also for Azure blob storage, it is working for AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage, but actually not for Azure blob.
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Replicate backups to S3 object-lock repository (e.g IBM COS, IBM Ceph)

Many of our IBM clients have listened to our cyber resiliency messaging and looked to re-introduce a "3rd" copy of the data. In alignment with industry standardization for "321" backup methodology it is important to have an isolated and secure rep...
almost 2 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 4 Future consideration

DS8K - Multiple local user support when AD/LDAP is configured

In DS8K - post configuration of AD/LDAP, it allows only one user in addition to LDAP users. Since we have local users created for different purposes (for e.g. CSM replication user, Spectrum Controller user, Monitoring tool integration users, Servi...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Allow Rest Logins Audit msg to be deactivated

If we check every 10 mins drive state, we get 144 login and 144 logout messages in the event logs of the library. The minimum would be the allow a API user creation who can only read for example and for whom one can deactivate then msg or similar....
8 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Future consideration

Support request for Tx and Rx power metrics on SAN switches to monitor possibly faulty SFP transceivers

One of my customers wants to monitor the SFP transceivers' power levels, both transmit and receive, on their SAN switches, because they have had link failure issues caused by faulty transceivers in the past. I know it is hard to diagnose those iss...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

In Fusion HCI console, under backups, there must be an option to delete one or more backups

It's useful, because of quick management of the backups, usable for anyone.
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Future consideration

Automatically assign cartridges to volser range instead of keeping them only in VIO

Currently (1.11 firmware level) only 255 cartridges can be inserted in the library without running checkin libvol/label libvol as they fill up the VIO slots of the library.As we often add a batch of a few thousands to increase capacity, this alway...
10 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 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

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration