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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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Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

One authentication for a group of Dual Operator Notifications actions, such as disabling multiple scheduled tasks

Currently we have 100+ scheduled tasks for CSM SGC backups. As we have Dual Operator enabled, this currently creates a Notification for each task. Would it be possible to group this type of action together to Approve as currently the overhead is s...
10 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Data collector incorporate in DS8K

Similar to CSM, Storage Insight Data collector can be built in the DS8K HMC by default for customer. This will allow the customer to easily consume the Storage Insight Service. This will increase Storage Insight usage and that will benefit the fut...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

TSM4VE lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way.

TSM4VE seems to lack support for multiple vCenters, in an intuitive, easy and manageable way. Competitive software, like Quest (formerly VizionCore) vRanger Pro and Veeam Backup & Replication does have stated support for multiple vCenters. It ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 8 Not under consideration

Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Is a defect

Add support for Rapid7 SIEM

Storage Defender SIEM integration obviously provides many benefits.Rapid7's InsightIDR SIEM is used for our Production SIEM. Please add support for Defender to integrate with InsightIDR SIEM, or at least the capability to receive and log events se...
over 1 year ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect faster backup and restore for Filer

Spectrum Protect's Backup by General Storage's MAGS parallelizes the process of checking objects for changes. As a result, this time-consuming part of the backup on file servers is massively accelerated.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add Support for IBM Spectrum Scale SafeguardCopy in Spectrum Protect as enhanced Cybercrime Solution for the Spectrum Protect Server Platform

In the area of cyberattacks its necessary to enhance the data-security in Spectrum Protect Installations. These attacks are coming. If we can immplement the scale safeguard Copy function in an spectrum protect installation for our GPFS Conf, DB, l...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration