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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    Password Length in TS7700

    I would like to propose an idea to increase the length of the password for the TS7700 user profiles to more than 25 characters as it would help us to keep the security to a maximum. Also, we would like to include the special characters in the pass...
    9 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Support Cohesity Data Protect as a backup source in DRS

    DRS currently support Defender Data Protect as a backup source in DRS and it should also support Cohesity Data Protect to broaden the scope of the solution.
    15 days ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Planned for future release

    SnapDiff-Support for ONTAP 9.18

    Could you please add Snapdiff support for ONTAP version 9.17 and 9.18? https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/154613
    28 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Planned for future release

    Enhance Scale ansible toolkit to deploy zimonGrafana Bridge

    Eliminate manual effort to add zimonGrafana Bridge
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

    It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

    Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

    Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM

    As many customer looking forward from OLVM solution , Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM was discussed. This includes support for setting up the Spectrum Control application and also the data migration from VMWare based VM to OLV...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Integrate PB-HA volumes with Veeam Backup (qualification)

    Many customers use Veeam Backup and want to purchase a disk system for this application, which can be found on the "Veeam Alliance Partner integrations and qualifications" page https://www.veeam.com/solutions/alliance-partner/integrations-qualific...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Planned for future release

    HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter

    Many clients at Middle East have only 2 sites as Prod and DR. They meet requirement of <10ms RTT latency between sites. They'd like to run HCP on 2AZ+Arbiter on Fusion HCI system. RH was not supporting running HCP control plane on base cluster ...
    3 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Planned for future release

    IBM Storage Protect™ for Mail: Data Protection for HCL Domino® 8.1.22 supports valid HCL Domino update the product to support the HCL Domino 14.5 version which was release back in June 2025..

    Being able to running the backup. Anyone who has HCL Domino 14.5 or planning to upgrade.
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Planned for future release

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