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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    S3 Object Storages compatible with Transparent Cloud Tiering

    We're implementing the Transparent Cloud Tiering for a Mainframe environment and customer would like to use other on-prem solutions of Object Storage, different of TS7700 or COS, to store data. Customer would like to use: - Hitachi HCP - DellEMC E...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

    GUI - Copy Services (Mirroring View: Volumes grouped by Session)

    On DS8880 and prior, the Storage Manager GUI provided a view on source system under Copy Services > Mirroring that grouped Volumes by GM Session. Starting on the DS8900 series the same view simply lists all Volumes (which is not overly helpful ...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    The GPFS GUI uses Swagger, which has security vulnerability issues. We request support to disable the Swagger-related pages.

    Some customers have strict requirements regarding security vulnerabilities, so we need to disable it.
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Retain a backup of Copy Services Manager installer file, when CSM was upgraded via DS CLI installsoftware process

    During DS8000 HMC reload or upgrade, CSM is back-leveled if the Customer had previously upgraded to a higher level, using the installsoftware process. The installsoftware process removes the CSM installer file upon successful completion, making it...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    vSnap recovery from ISP offload

    vSnaps of spectrum protect plus are at the moment secured by replicating the data to another vSnap. Currently only the backup data are offloaded through S3, but not the metadata vSnap needed to recover itself in case of crash or cyber attack. We ...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Need to protect Encryption Key Servers with Dual Control

    In case a hacker can login to TS4500 web GUI via admin user. He can do several stuffs like switch on Library-managed encryption (LME)? Data is encrypted and can no longer be processed if the hacker drops the key server. Please protect the Encrypti...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Add support for standalone ESXi Hosts

    Add support for standalone ESXi hosts as well as vCenters
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Enhance Spectrum Protect to use Tapefunction Recomended Access Order for repair stg Containerpool from Tape.

    The current support of tapefunction in Protect has more then one gaps in the area off use tape storage. The main concerns are the support of tape in the relation to containerstg. These current designs generate a alongated repair time if we want to...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

    Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

    Support for restoring concurrent vg

    There are some insignificant errors during OS restore with concurrent vg via NIM Resource Boot.“0516-1305 chvg: This command is not allowed while volume group sapbinvg is concurrent capable”“0516-1300 chpv: -h option is not allowed for hdisk3 beca...
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Is a defect

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