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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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.
Tape Vaulting is an important feature allowing exporting cartridges and securing them in a separate physical location while preserving all S3‑level pointers and metadata. Although daily operations typically rely on an in‑library tape pool, vaulting becomes critical during maintenance windows, hardware migrations, or disaster‑recovery drills.
For example, when replacing legacy LTO drives with newer generations, maintenance operations might require additional slots than the ones that are already available. For instance, tape vaulting allows finding temporary space to design a partitioning of the library during a migration of an LTO generation: one subset (legacy LTO) remains online and accessible by the legacy drives for ongoing operations, while another subset (new generation) is achievable with the new technology of drives and involve copy procedures; the design of this scenario may require more slots than the library can offer, hence the need to implement vaulting. All metadata, object versions, and retention rules—remains intact within the S3 metadata catalog, ensuring seamless re‑ingestion when the cartridges are returned.