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 parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Enable Full Export and Correlation of Affected Files and Alerts in DMS Anti-Ransomware UI

Currently, when an anomaly or ransomware detection event occurs within the DMS Security Anti-Ransomware interface, the “Affected Files” page does not provide a supported mechanism to export or download the complete list of affected files. At this ...
about 18 hours ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above, we want it added again.

The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above. Client want to be able to have it added again. It does allow you to set the site normally when creating host, and "lshost" also shows the host site, but in GUI there is n...
about 3 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Support creating Copy-Container pools to VTL instead of physical tape only

Customers do have VTL instead of physical tape in use, VTL is used as disaster recovery media. Customer plans to ingest Object Data (IBM Fusion) via S3 Object Agent to a Disk Container Storage Pool. Protection of a Disk Container Storage Pool is p...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Dual Control for DS8900F

Given that the EOS for the DS8900F is not expected to be available until late 2030, many field installations of this generation will be around until then and beyond. And as the threat of cyberattacks is on the rise, it would be beneficial for IBM ...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Develop the Transparent Cloud Tiering capability to send snapshots to cloud, but use a different Ethernet port than the managment port.

Would like to send snapshots to the cloud vs. storing them locally long term. This funcationality exists, but requires the use of the management network to connect to the cloud. Would like to use another Ethernet port to send snapshots to the clou...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

enhance onboard performance monitoring

For many years customers have been asking to enhance the built-in performance monitoring capabilities in StorV's GUI. For a while now we're offering a 60 days history but only at an overall system/node level. However, many customers expect from an...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

IBM block storage CSI driver, increase ssh connections on FlashSystem

Who benefits: OpenShift customers with one FlashSystem, but more than one Openshift Cluster How it should work: the FlashSystem Software should increase the number of SSH connections. This enable customers to use a single FlashSystem as a Storag...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Automatic Recovery Enhancement for CSM Sessions After Temporary Switch Failures

In our environment, temporary switch port/SAN issues frequently cause CSM replication sessions to move into a Severe state and suspend MM/GM pairs.Even after the switch issue is resolved, CSM does not automatically clear the error or recover the s...
11 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

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