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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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Allow guest access to an SMB share

With medical instruments and probably many other devices not always connected to an Active Directory domain due to aging operating systems on the instruments' consoles or instruments' vendors restrictions or limitations, it would be necessary for ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

gpfs client support rocky linux

we expect gpfs client support more operation systems to meet the needs of mostusers, for example rocky linux
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

postgreSQL Support

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

IBM Storage Fusion support for mutiple (1, 2 or 3) replica deployment model and lower infrastrucutre cost

Many modern OpenShift workloads are doing application level HA with deployment across AZ with transaction replication. The most prominant of these from the IBM SW portfolio are CP4I and CP4BA. For these workloads, their deployment with Fusion Data...
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Planned for future release

A flexible way to prestage LV into VTS cache

Today, there is no native zOS utility available that recalls(prestages) all the needed LogicalVolumes in an effective and automated way back into the VTS cache.
almost 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Backups of k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS

We need to be able to protect k8s clusters orchestrated through AKS as that is going to drive our business.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

B/A Client 8.x support for Solaris (SPARC on 11.4)

Customer is requesting support of B/A client on 8.x for SPARC Solaris Servers. Currently are backing up the environment with 7.x client but it's reaching EOS in Dec/2021.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Feature Enhancement to support multiple infiniband partition key

Increase security against eavesdropping by limiting the access to resources using infiniband partition so cross talk and malicious attacks can be eliminate
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SSL CA certificates expiration date monitoring

We would like to have possibility of monitoring expiration date of SSL signed certificates by Customer CA through IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center and have ability to perform certificate renewal if possible. This would be a huge improvement ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration