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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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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.

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SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to align with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Submitted

Replicate backups to S3 object-lock repository (e.g IBM COS, IBM Ceph)

Many of our IBM clients have listened to our cyber resiliency messaging and looked to re-introduce a "3rd" copy of the data. In alignment with industry standardization for "321" backup methodology it is important to have an isolated and secure rep...
13 days ago in Storage Defender 1 Submitted

Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Submitted

Enable Web Proxy for DMS agent communication to IBM Cloud

Build in a option to configure the use of a web proxy to enable the DMS agent for Storage Protect to communicate with the IBM Cloud for Storage Protect servers that do not/cannot have direct access to the internet and require a web proxy for inter...
5 days ago in Storage Defender 0 Submitted

Allow IBM Fusion Backup to continue if PVCs disappear during the backup process

In a very volatile machine learning environment, PVCs are created and deleted frequently, controlled by the containerized application when users create or delete projects within the application. Let’s call these PVCs “User Project Volumes”. It hap...
9 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review
208 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

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

Allow more than 1 IBM Storage Insights instance to monitor IBM Storage devices using Call Home with Cloud services

There are companies that provide data hosting services that manage IBM storage devices for other companies, and there are times both companies want to monitor the device using IBM Storage Insights. If both the company that use the device and the c...
about 5 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

In local Encryption Context , Customer have no wy to check encryption status. This lead into long run discussion with no ending when need to supply encryption evidence to SecurityAudit Team"

When only have FC5272 using local encryption mgr, for data at rest . VTS admin people cannot supply trustable evidences to Security Team about the encryption status. We raise a case TS015965829 , we were explain, the the VTS MI data encryption tab...
about 6 hours ago in IBM TS7700 0 Submitted

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude node support on Install and deploy

In an heterogene world of scale cluster we had more an more the requirement to install new nodes with higher versions of scale because of some dependencies of OS-Kernel-Levels. (ABI changes as example). We want the same function like exclude suppo...
about 9 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

Enhance Ansible Toolkit with exclude support on install and deploy

In the heterogene world of scale cluster we see more and more an requirement to put different versions of scale because of new deployments of OS (rhel) and other decisions and dependencies.The current toolkit installation missed this feature to ad...
about 9 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted