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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    Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

    Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    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 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights

    Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights. This is a requirement by our Cyber team to control access to our Storage Insights instance. We had opened TS021203790 to enable this feature, but the responded that the option is not available...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    IBM Defender Alert Notifications limitation with 20 objects in an Email

    our backup failure alerts are being turned into incidents based on the Defender notification email settings. Ideally, each server failure within a protection group should generate a separate incident in ServiceNow. However, it appears Defender’s a...
    9 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

    customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Encryption on Metro/Global Mirror Link (FCP/PPRC)

    It is currently an audit exposure if data is encrypted only at a rest. Clients are required to encrypt data in all physical media where the data transits and is stored, from the CPU to disk, and also from primary copy to all other copies where it ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Support External Ceph on Fusion HCI as the only storagesystem

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is the right fit (particularly for OpenShift Virtualization), support configuring External Ceph on Fusion HCI with no other storage defined (no GDP and FDF installed b...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    RegionalDR support for External Ceph

    For customers with very large storage capacity requirements where External Ceph is a good fit, rbd-mirror needs to support StorageClass ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd rather than the usual internal StorageClass ocs-storagecluster-ceph-rbd.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    SCDM GUI extension request (update of group marked jobs)

    It is not possible to set grouped BACKUP jobs as "Hold Schedule" and "Unhold Schedule". Same for grouped selections for Delete request.It is only possible to do this sequentially according to the selected individual jobs, which is incredibly time ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Be able to set default throttle or multiple throttle schedules (business hours or weekends, for example)

    This request is to have the ability of creating different throttle schedules, or setting a default throttle.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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