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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    integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights

    Integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights (This is specifically for IP network traffic monitoring). Since Industry move forward to TCP traffic this will important feature This helps for observability for TCP traffic kindly work with developm...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Support for HPE VM Essentials with FlashSystem (including PBR/HA)

    MSP considering HPE VM Essentials as VMware replacement, but need FlashSystem/SVC support
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Fusion B&R RBAC and self service backup and recoveries

    Customer is keen to use the self-service backup/restore to allow the app admins (admin users of particular namespaces) define and run their backup/restore jobs themselves. Currently the self-service backup/restore job definitions and job runs are ...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Fusion Backup&Recovery multi-hub architecture

    Currently the backup jobs in Fusion B&R require the hub to be operational in order to run backups, with multi-hub approach (possilby in active/standby fashion) the backups would have higher reliability if there is a problem with hub.
    about 1 month ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    This RFE is to request that CSM can perhaps issue the remove LSS session later in the process after soft fence in storage volumes is released

    This RFE will enable development to do code change to resolve CSM issue customer encountered.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    mount and unmount events are not in the event log or sent to syslog servers

    The mount and demount activity from the home page of the TS4500 GUI should be reflected in the event log GUI and the syslog stream. Having to look at multiple locations to find activity details adds complexity during incident review/debugging.
    about 2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Task import/export feature

    It will be helpful to have the ability to export and import schedule tasks. This will facilitate the creation of schedules as well as the ability to copy them to different servers. Currently creating multiple, complex multi task schedule is time c...
    2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

    We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    Add ability to show data at rest is in encrypted and the encryption cipher via Rest API.

    We need this to be accessible via an API for audit requirements.
    2 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Add the ability to use more"custom tag" fields with a tag manager

    We are all familiar with the Custom Tag1, Custom Tag2, and Custom Tag3 fields but many of us find ourselves needing more tags for advanced filtering or for an ideal place to keep up with common attributes. The new GUI seems to have this as a place...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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