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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    Property for direct connected servers

    Problem Statement: Customers using IBM i systems are one example of environments where direct Fibre Channel (FC) connections are deployed. When such a server reboots, the FC connection is temporarily lost. In a SAN fabric environment, this is a no...
    3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Feature to create alert policy via CSV import

    Some Storage Insights customers manage multiple SI tenants. Currently, custom alert policies exported from one tenant cannot be imported into another tenant. Provide the capability to import custom alert policies into a tenant using a CSV exported...
    1 day ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    Fusion Topology/Zone-Aware Zero-touch Backup and Restore for Multi Zone Environments

    Requirement In a multi-zone deployment of IBM Concert Operate and IBM Fusion, backup and restore operations should function end-to-end without requiring manual intervention.Currently, successful backup and restore workflows require manual actions:...
    about 23 hours ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Support ACME Protocol for Automated Certificate Management on FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize (TPI Enabled)

    Currently, when Two-Person Integrity (TPI) is enabled on IBM FlashSystem and Storage Virtualize systems, the automated rotation of security certificates via Ansible or other automation tools is restricted or blocked due to the mandatory dual-autho...
    16 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Support and Validate kubevirt-CSI on IBM Fusion HCI with HyperShift Hosted Control Plane Clusters

    Please certify the "kubevirt-csi" driver as a supported storage configuration for virtual HyperShift Hosted Control Plane (HCP) clusters running on IBM Fusion HCI. The validation scope should include: Compatibility with IBM Data Foundation (ODF/C...
    7 days ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Provide hardware information withing the initial setup assistant

    In some environments you need to know configuration information before you set up a new system, for example WWPNs or MAC addresses of each port. Today this information is not available in the setup wizard, and thus it forces you to pause the wizar...
    8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Re-enable Service Access before finisching system setup with the Initial Setup Assistant.

    Current Easy Setup flow prevents direct access to Service Assistant, requiring complex workarounds for code upgrades and hardware verification before cluster creation. However only in Service Assistant you can get information like WWPNs, MAC addre...
    8 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Return migrated (emptied) file volumes to Scratch (or delete) more efficiently during migration processes

    When a FILE volume becomes empty during an IBM Spectrum Protect Server migration process, it is only deleted at the end of the migration process. This handles disk space inefficiently and can lead to storage pools filling up unnecessarily fast dur...
    about 21 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Allow expiration policy to be applied retroactively to existing TS7700 scratch volumes

    When logical volumes are returned to a TS7700 scratch category, the Expire Time configured for that category at that moment determines their expiration timestamp. If the Expire Time is configured or changed later, the new setting is not applied re...
    1 day ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

    Support for Microsoft Entra ID Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

    Many enterprise customers have standardized on Microsoft Entra ID as their central identity provider and MFA solution. Support for Microsoft Entra ID MFA is a critical requirement for security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
    3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

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