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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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Increase REST API max requests per second limit

The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.

Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Send error notification in case a physical ISL in a PBHA System Partnership fails

Can the IBM issue an error notification by the FlashSystem, that is joining a PBHA relationship, in case a physical ISL fails, which is part of the related System Partnership ? It would be good to get a similar error notification as the Cluster Pa...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
5 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

Threat Detection for Ceph

IBM FlashSystem has RTD based on FCM4, Defender uses Sensor (in file-system) to detect threats. We should have similar functions in Ceph to detect and report an early attack.
11 months ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

Increase in the number of components analyzed simultaneously

Hello Development team. I would like to suggest an improvement in the Spectrum Control. When some situation that needs a deeper analysis happens, like a performance problem, it is useful to see the behavior of the components. At this point, the Sp...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

Network option for Ceph Ready Nodes

Our customers have asked us to upgrade their network performance and availability for Ceph Ready Nodes. Therefore, we would like you to add networking options as well as disk drives. - Number of NIC ports. Currently, with only two ports(10GbE), cu...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage CEPH 0 Submitted

Spectrum Protect for ERP should support HANA 2.0 SP08

We are currently running SP for ERP 8.1.11, which supports SAP HANA 2.0 up to SP7. Our customer (and HANA support) wants to install SAP HANA 2.0 SP8, but we heard this is not supported with SP for ERP SAP HANA 8.1.11. Our SAP colleagues told us, t...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Submitted

Extend IBM Storage Copy Data Management to support Safeguarded Snapshot at the Volume Group level, including groups configured with PBHA+DR, PBHA replication policies

Hello, IBM Storage Copy Data Management currently supports Safeguarded Snapshot only at the individual volume level. For environments where applications span multiple volumes, this limitation increases operational complexity and risk during recove...
2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted