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).
Shape the future of IBM!
We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:
Search existing ideas
Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,
Post your ideas
Post an idea.
Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.
Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.
Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use
Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.
ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
There are many Linux distributions out there. It would not be practical to try to test and support them all. The IBM Storage Scale team focuses on testing Enterprise Linux distributions RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu. However, there are some popular distributions in the Linux community that are created by essentially building the code from source packages corresponding to one of the enterprise distributions, usually with some cosmetic changes. IBM Storage Scale code may be able to work correctly on such a distribution, since it very closely resembles a supported one. However, we do not test IBM Storage Scale explicitly on such clone distributions, and will not be able to provide support for any problems specific to the use of the latter. If a problem is reported in such an environment, we will investigate it, but if the problem is suspected to be related to the type of distribution used, we may request that the problem be recreated on a supported distribution. Note that other IBM products may have a different support policy. We recommend that a supported distribution is used on NSD servers and other nodes that have SAN connectivity, to make it possible to get support with storage-related issues.