Skip to Main Content
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 5546

network access controlm for mmsysmon REST API

Currently mmsysmon REST API allows all inbound connections. Our cybersecurity penetration team has successfully sent network packets that caused REST API to malfunction, leaving hundreds of connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. In this scenario CherryP...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Currently there is no way to visualize "Virtual Backup capacity" , in Safaguarded copy in DS8950F .

As SGC is a the next evolution of secured backup, should be valuable if spectrum Control can give
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Expand TPI to more actions

With the new TPI feature it is not possible to delete safeguarded snapshots. We would very much like the feature expanded to include operations such as deleting regular datastores in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. And before you say "ju...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Add support for NFS v4 on vSnap Servers to close Vulnerabilities issues caused by NFS v3

Customer is having SPP 10.1.7 and Security team runs multiple Vulnerability Scan multiple times a year and they have identified vulnerability on vSnap servers related to NFS version. Current NFS version of the vSnap file system is V3. Can we inclu...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Azure native VM snapshots support to SPP

As of March 2021 SPP on Azure is capable to backup some DBs on Azure, but not VMson Azure.Add support for VMs will give SPP on Azure similar functionality comparing to SPP on premise
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GPFS instead of ZFS

Instead of ZFS we'd appreciate use of GPFS/Spectrum Scale with Protocols. The IBM Product has all capabilities to ensure a stable and scale-out infrastructure which is supported in all current Kernel Levels.Using GPFS will not have the impact on t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

GNR needs to be supported outside ESS

Since Spectrum Scale is a Software Defined Storage product, we would need to support GNR outside of Elastic Storage Server.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Add DB2 support for Spectrum CDM

Add support for DB2 in addition to Intercache, Oracle, SQL and HANA databases in the Spectrum CDM product please
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running

Similar to the CLI (OS) command vsnap_status on the vSnap server provide a CLI (OS) command spp_status on the SPP Server to have a quick view if all required processes are up and running.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Ability to install Vintela on SPP + VSNAP servers for user access

The customer would like to have the ability to install Vintela on the SPP and VSNAP servers in their environment. This is to grant access to the team that supports SPP without having to give out the superuser or create a local account for each per...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration