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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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Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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.
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

vsphere CSI support in Spectrum Protect Plus

We're asking for SPP to support vsphere CSI driver in container environment
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Easier Flashsystem configuration Export/Import

A customer requirement is that if a situation arises where a failed storage device is to be replaced, the original storage controller configuration can be easily and immediately imported as a new storage controller configuration. We would like to...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Recover failed Ganesha node - which mark with F flag, without reboot.

Hi We had NFS Ganesha node that failed - but we did not able to recover it , only reboot solve it. Sysmon attempted to remove the F flag three times, but all attempts to acquire the lock failed.As a result, the node remained in a failed state desp...
4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Under review

certificate import to a truststore to be used for TCT cloud connect

Client wants to import certificate chain of its cloud server to get them trusted on the DS8K to avoid to specify them at the mkcloudserver command.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Storage Scale GUI command line does not show when Expiration (Safe Guarded snapshot) is enabled

Client enabled the option "Allow Expiration" at the GUI. At the GUI panel, we see the Expiration column changed from False to True. However when checking in the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/lssnaprule command, it does not have the Expiration column, so i...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

Litigation Hold Property on File Spaces.

Provide an ability to prevent expiration processing to occur for a file space when a node becomes part of a "Litigation Hold" issue. The status of enabled would over-ride expiration processing of files/folders in the file space. Microsoft Exchange...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

CDM: Allow parallel mounts/restores to proxy/remote host (Windows)

CDM should allow and handle right mounting multiple snapshots of same type/application to another host (mount proxy/remote host) at the same time (Windows). Intention is to offload multiple MSSQL Server snapshots in parallel. It seems that OS/SCSI...
over 1 year 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.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration