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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    Minimal privileges for an SCVMM Cohesity agent service account

    To deploy the SCVMM Cohesity agent service an account with Administrator privileges is required. During operations the service is run using this account, and it must use the same Administrator privilege level to operate correctly. Using an account...
    7 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Manual client package import for Operation Center client deployment

    Possibility for a manual import of client packages which can be used by the Spectrum Protect Operation Center to update clients.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Not under consideration

    Directory-container stgpool protection using cloud-container stgpools

    A directory-container storage pool can not be protected by using a cloud-container storage pool, neither via the PROTECTstgpool nor the PROTECTLOCalstgpools options. It would make sense to allow a directory-container storage pool to be protected t...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Extend PBR command set

    Currently PBR has some "limited" set of command available, because the idea was to keep it simple and more automatic possible. Some customer which are exploring PBR, believe that having the chance to "STOP" and "START" a VG replication w/o necessa...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    Port 9560 Connection - Configurable Keepalive or Heart beat in application.

    CSM currently appears to rely on a long-lived connection to port 9560 for High Availability. Certain enterprise firewalls remove idle TCP sessions after a set amount minutes, resulting in loss of connectivity and inability to query status from the...
    2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    AFM - Use non-root credentials for NFS communication between the home and target.

    Currently root privs is required for AFM to communicate between home and target. This poses an issue with infosec. Please allow for non-root credentials for NFS
    7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhance RestAPI to allow for control of AOS

    AOS is a mission critical remote support tool. Activation of AOS creates a threat vector therefore it should only ever be activated as needed and closed when support if fulfilled. Given the need for support could occur anytime, and the staff avail...
    11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    FlashSystem intelligent QoS

    Although FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize have the capability of do throttling of IOPS and MBps to a specific LUN or Pool, I have more than one customer that would like to have the capability of specify SLO, for example, implement QoS with differ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Ransomware detection functionality for IBM Storage Protect.

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to detect possible ransomware attack on backed-up and/or archived data. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to provide such functionality because IBM Storage Virtualize on I...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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