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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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one or few click retry of failed objects on protection group

Makes day-to-day administration of backups easier and increase overall success rate of backups
about 8 hours ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica Submitted

Allow dynamic addition and removal of WWPNs for hosts assigned to PBHA storage partitions

IBM FlashSystem currently does not allow administrators to add or remove host ports/WWPNs when the host is assigned to a storage partition used with Policy-Based High Availability (PBHA). This limitation creates a significant operational risk in p...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted
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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 ...
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

CSI driver with RWX permission

we have a large VMware environment that uses an IBM FS7300 storage system as the primary storage for virtual machines. We have recently started using Kubernetes together with Persistent Volumes. However, the native CSI driver only supports RWO (Re...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Enable PIV/CAC Certificate-Based Authentication with LDAP for IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700

We request an enhancement to the IBM DS8K and IBM TS7700 systems to support certificate-based authentication using PIV/CAC cards in conjunction with LDAP. Currently, these systems only support password-based authentication with LDAP, which does no...
15 days ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Allow for Windows/Linux OS reimiaging without removing reinstallation and data restore

Add support for installation on a mounted disk (not the OS disk) and then allowing you to reregister the product with the OS after the OS disk is reimaged without having to actually reinstall the product. Then you would just unmount, reimage, remo...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Submitted

Make the df command report information on enforced quota rather than on the filesystem itself on AIX

When quotas are enforced for a fileset, on AIX the informations reported by the df command are based the entire file system wherea son Linux the behaviour is to report informations on the enfored quota. Would it be possible to have the same behavi...
1 day ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

support of IBM COS Onprem Container mode with Object Lock in SP

Currently, only vault mode with Protectected Vault retention is supported. We need support for container mode to enable governance or compliance mode on SP immutable backups
6 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

Ablity to refresh a thinclone from an unrelated snapshot

The existing ability to refresh a thinclone volumegroup from a snapshot helps with automating repeated tasks and minimising admin in the server and OS infrastructure to discover volumes. In this operation the thinclone volumegroup is constraint - ...
18 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Need CSI driver support for use of mirrored volumes in SVC standard stretched cluster

To create a volume with high availability (HA) (HyperSwap or stretched topology) on IBM Storage VirtualizeĀ® storage systems, put a colon (:) between the two pools within the pool value. For example: pool: demo-pool1:demo-pool2 Important The two po...
19 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review