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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    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA

    New version of DCDM 2.2.27 or another version - The ability to scan snapshots created on both sides of PBHA (via Sentinel) also on the non-production side.
    2 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    IBM Defender Sentinel - Sensor for Storage Scale / GPFS filesystems

    We have a lot of customers with GPFS where we can see to sell Sentinel, but we need a support of filesystem agent. GPFS has safe guarded snapshots and policy engine, so it would be fine to use those features to implement security scans.
    2 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    ESXi 8.0.3 security scanning support form VMs with snapshots

    Quote from the documentation: Sentinel server with version 8.10 or higher can scan virtual machines on ESXi version 8.0.3. However, if those VMs have VMware snapshots, the host will not scan them. Sentinel server with version 8.9 or earlier can al...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

    Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Under review

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum IBM Spectrum Protect Replication to 3rd SP Server and/or Public Cloud Storage

    We can currently only replicate a node's data to only 1 IBM Spectrum Protect server. Various customers now have a requirement to replicate to a 3rd site or to the cloud.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 6 Not under consideration

    ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip

    Ternary.txt ternary chips can be modified and used as quantum chip. we do not need to develop the quantum - super conductor 150kw sub zero temperatures. it is enough that we develop a proper ternary quantum chip. ternary chip has three states -1 0...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Easy R/W failover for a replicated node

    In a ISP environment using the Node Replication feature, the R/O client failover is automated since version 7.1.1 of the ISP server. It works fine, but allows only the restore or retrieve of objects.If the source server is unavailable for a longer...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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