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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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Eliminate divisive language from your products

We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
1 day ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

SCDM - CDM/Sentinel - Post snapshot script run before Sentinel scan starts

Clients using Sentinel Scan engine needs a way to kickoff a Post Snap script before the Scan Engine gets started for Sentinel. This will allow clients the ability to get some work done before a long scan run, such at 15-20 hours.
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

Defender data Protect KVM Support

Customer is asking us for a VM backup solution , we was thinking to propose defender with DataProtect , but He is using , as hypervisor , KVM-based (Sangfor OS) and unfotunatly it is not supported. More and more customers are looking for an altern...
9 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

The 'System Down' field is not specified when Storage Insights is used to open a support ticket

When using Storage Insights to create a ticket for a monitored storage system, there is nowhere to specify a value for 'System Down' field. Depending on the device type, the 'System Down' field may be a required field in the IBM Support Portal, in...
about 8 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Implement SMTP Authenticated access for Operation Center

Currently in all Spectrum Protect versions, we can only connect to an open mail relay in order to send email alerts or reports via the operations center. However the new trend today is to have the mail servers located in the cloud and any access t...
about 10 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 0 Submitted

Syslog messages forwarded to a syslog server have to be encrypted by TLS protocol

in our data centers syslog messages have to be encrypted. we got an open risk because COS System send syslog messages unencrypted to the syslog server.
1 day ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
24 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Under review

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted
209 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
11 months ago in Storage Scale System 3 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Archve EE - One failed candidate (e.g. deleted) for migration causes whole migration task fail, space allocated, migration must be repeated

Migration task should finish successfully even any individual file fails (reason of failure could be that user deleted of changed file after start of migration), it helps to save drive time so no new re-migration is needed. If migration fails, spa...
9 days ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Future consideration