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

    Add samlogon cache expiry and add support for manage_gids=yes and to re-authenticate AD users in NFS with sec=sys

    The MANAGE_GIDS_EXPIRATION parameter is a configuration option within the NFS Ganesha core configuration file that controls the cache validity duration for group membership information (GID) lookups. The netsamlogon_cache.tdb file in Samba stores ...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Node Replication for NDMP Node

    Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Provide support for COS WORM (and other S3 or BLOB equivalent WORM features)

    Multiple customers and BPs have requested that Spectrum Protect supports the WORM functionality in S3 offload, be that the COS specific or the general S3 protocol WORM functionality. While not specifically required it also seems prudent to extend ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

    Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

    It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

    Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

    When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Password Length in TS7700

    I would like to propose an idea to increase the length of the password for the TS7700 user profiles to more than 25 characters as it would help us to keep the security to a maximum. Also, we would like to include the special characters in the pass...
    7 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    For tickets that are showing on Storage Insights have a hyperlink to the IBM ticket

    This will eliminate the need to copy and paste the ticket number into the IBM support site. The hyperlink will take you there eliminating the copy paste process as well as saving time
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Remote monitoring functionality for the IBM Storage Protect instances to avoid storage capacity shortages and address performance issues

    IBM Storage Protect should provides a way to remotely monitor its insataces to storage capacity shortages and address performance issues. While I believe the best solution is to employ IBM Storage Insights to monitor capacity and performance stati...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    Add Webinterface to Debian based Linux.

    A customer have based most of their production on Debian based Linux distros (Debian and Ubuntu) with no GUI in the server install. In the BA client DEB package the WebClient module is missing, the RPM package TIVsm-WEBGUI.x86_64.rpm
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    TS7700 - Setup of the timezone (to send RSyslog records with the same time as the receiving system)

    TS7700 and TSSC do support the setup of an RSyslog Client and externalize the log collection. However, it is not possible to define a local timezone on either TS7700 or TSSC. This results in a mixture of log entries in the receiving Syslog Server ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.