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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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Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
4 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions

Enhance RESTful API to include Roles and Permissions.Supplemental to idea TS77-I-166.
10 days ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Submitted

Snapshots on ChildPool

today you can only create snapshot-policy which makes the snapshots on the same pool the volume is already on. and in our scenario we are using Child-Pool for snapshots to prevent risks of cyber attacks when snapshots are filling the primery pool ...
19 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 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 2 months ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'S3 Bucket Notification'

Scale S3 should be able to send event notification messages to the following destinations: 1.) Generic, -> like Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 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

When IBM spectrum protect baclient will support SNAPDIFF backup on NETAPP version 9.13.y?

The BA client version 8.1.13 (or later) up to but not including version 8.1.23 supports NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.9.y (where y is 0 or higher). Starting with version 8.1.23 (or later), support extends to NetApp ONTAP versions up to 9.12.y (whe...

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...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Customer should be able to check the installed VTD_EXEC's via REST-API

Provide a way to query the installed VTD_EXECs via REST-API GET request. Might just be added to the /GET/clusters/id request.
3 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Functionality already exists

Object Lock for CES-S3

We have been requesting this for a long time through other channels and it seems like something that has not yet been acknowledged... it is an important feature to implement for the new CES-S3, we have alot of missed opportunities due to the lack ...
6 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted