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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    Prometheus metrics for Fusion Backup and Restore Service operations

    Fusion currently exposes a limited set of Prometheus metrics for backup and restore operations. While sufficient for basic monitoring, these metrics do not provide enough detail for production-grade observability. Problem Statement: The current Pr...
    1 day ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

    IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

    Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
    3 days ago in Storage Scale System 0 Submitted

    Prevend db2 abort within multiple backup streams

    If an error/abort occurs on one of the tape drives during a 6-stream db2 backup to tape, the entire backup is aborted by the db2. Please change the error behavior for db2 backups to resume with the remaining sessions to finish the backup job succe...
    about 16 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Improve DS8 Communications Certificate Renewal Process

    The current Communication Certificate renewal process is lengthy and cumbersome, and as the industry is moving over the next few years to require rotating certificates every 47 days vs just once a year, improving existing workflows as much as poss...
    1 day ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    Support OpenShift EUS (Extended Update Support) for IBM Fusion HCI

    OpenShift EUS provides a stable, long-term support update channel with key advantages: Reduced update frequency (e.g., every 6 months instead of 3) Only one restart of non-control-plane nodes per update Shorter update duration Currently, IBM does ...
    19 days ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

    3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

    Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
    25 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

    IBM TS4500 Tape Library with FIPS 140-3 Support

    Dear IBM Team, We need your help & support to enable the FIPS 140-3 support with TS4500 + LTO9 + GLKM. Thanks & Regards
    12 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    On-prem Storage Insights

    Last week, I met with a PSU BFSI client and presented IBM Storage Insights (SaaS). We requested them to integrate their storage systems with the Storage Insights SaaS offering. We conducted a detailed technical discussion and whiteboarding session...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

    Add pool capacity information to REST call "get pools"

    Customers are converting from dscli to REST API to feed e.g. Grafana dashboards. The dscli "lsextpool" command displays values for totalLogicalCap, usedLogicalCap, provisionedCap, totalPhysicalCap, usedPhysicalCap and compressionRatio. The REST re...
    3 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

    when using a (pbha-) partitions ip address to access the (pbha-) partition via ssh: make the accessed partition visible. e.g. modify the ssh-prompt and add the partitions name.

    greater customer satisfaction when using ssh to access a partition.
    23 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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