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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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.

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    dsmserv maintenance does not disable storage rules

    Starting the SP server in maintenance mode is a helpful vehicle after software updates and problem determination phases. It disables all internal server processing and client sessions except of preventing storage rules being executed. Disabling st...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Needs more information

    Backup database to s3/cloud - support for immutability

    Cloud container pool has support for immutability and if you store data there, it makes sense to also be able to store the database backup in cloud with immutability. Currently, database can be stored in cloud, but no immutability.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    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.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Needs more information

    SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

    Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    MFA features require to add Google authentication

    Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect has Google authentication enabled, but IBM Flash Storage and SVC do not support Google authentication or MFA features. Including this functionality in upcoming versions would be highly beneficial, as it would allow ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    consolidated ticket overview

    In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

    Data security with AI

    Data security with AI controlling and update in your data real time and security provided in your system.
    3 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Submitted

    Chained Scheduled Tasks Return "Rolled Up" Status to API

    Currently, when the API is used to call a Scheduled Task, the API return code is based solely on the result of that task. Thus, if we have a Task that calls another task upon success, and the subsequent task fails, the API will always return a suc...
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    IBM Storage Scale Container Native Support for migration between host network and CNI

    In the original versions of IBM Storage Scale Container Native there was only host-network support, which was not ideal from the security/performance point of view. New versions of GPFS have added support CNI support. Currently there is no documen...
    8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    RegionalDR and S3 Acceleration at the same time

    Clients who are building data lakehouse , are also building DR capabilities. Fusion HCI, Watsonx and CEPH are bringing turnkey experience Fusion HCI 2.7.1 wil bring Regional DR capabilities.Fusion HCI brings alot of benefits to Watsonx.data, inclu...
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

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