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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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MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Increase Safeguarded Copy Backup Capacity per volume beyond the current limit of 14.6 TiB for CKD volumes

When using maximum sized CKD EAV (Extended Address) volumes on the DS8K it would be useful to to have more than 14.6TiB of safeguarded volume capacity available. If these large volumes experience high change rates they can easily use up all of the...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

Dynamic grain size for point in time copy.

Performance of small block applications like EPIC health record systems, reduce write amplification.
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Windows ReFS is not supported for Single File Restore

Because Windows ReFS filesystem is getting more and more popular it is a major lack of functionality and usability by not supporting ReFS for single file restore with the selfservice portal.
about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Submitted

Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Add Spectrum Scale support for Red Hat's kpatch feature. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux-kernel-live-patching

Anyone that maintains a Red Hat server running Spectrum Scale could benefit from this capability.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Storage Defender 1 Future consideration

add option for the tgtread status

We are using CSM on open system to manage zOS LPAR. When we create replication, the option tgtread is at yes with CSM, which is not compatible with zOS. Can you add a checkbox to manage this option?
4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration