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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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DS8k - WWPN/WWNN for Fibre channel Ports

According to the PLOGI (Port Login) and PRLI (Process Login) are used to establish connections between devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network).That means source and target WWNPN/WWNN are known. However, the details for the logged in links is only ...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Change process for dual control function

the dual control function raise the security for important functios in TS77xx. To use this function you need 2 groups(or persons) for 'Maker' and 2 groups(or persons) for 'Checker'. The result of this workflow(design) is, that you need 4 Groups to...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Delivered

Storage Scale support only Rsyslog for log monitoring instead of syslog-NG

Storage Scale supports only Rsyslog for log management, but has several security risks. The better solution would be support for syslog-NG
7 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Notification email "From" address should be configurable from GUI and CSM configuration file

The default email "From" address on notifications is "csmServer@server.domain.tld" or "csmServer@ip.address". With NATed servers, and Email spam prevention, we need to be able to configure this value to meet customer environment requirements.
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

essclient.properties file activity

SMF records show that this property file is being read circa 100M times per day, driving high I/O rates and CPU activity. It doesn't make sense that a static property file should need to be read this frequently.
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Storage Scale S3 protocol enhancement: Add 'versioning' in S3 buckets

Versioning in Amazon S3 is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object in the same bucket. You can use the S3 Versioning feature to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your buckets. With versioning you can...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Tuning off Alert definition : remove 2017

Hi, From SVC 8.6.1.0 and 8.7.0.0 an new Alerte is noticed in Events Log : "2017 - One or more configured hosts are offline" So users receive by mail each time a 'host' become OFFLINE. We are using 'Flash Copy' every day so we are starting ang stop...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Replication policy - Timer for Recovery Copy Sync

We currently see a countdown for the # of TiB remaining, would it be possible to add a time showing the approximate amount of time unles the recovery copy is in sync?
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Implement password policy for CSM Users in the Basic User Registry

There is obviously no password policy for CSM Userids in the basic user registry, when using CSM on HMC. This is a security breach, because the CSM users are not prompted to use a complex password. But in most cases, they do it voluntary to ensure...
9 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Delivered

Ability to replicate storage fusion backup and restore service protection

When we backup the service protection to an s3 compliant backup location, the service protection cannot be replicated to another s3 compliant backup location say at a DR site. It would be ideal if we can replication the service protection backup t...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion 3 Delivered