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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Storage Scale GUI emails notifications

Dear team, by a customer we have 12 IBM Storage scale subsystem 5149-F48 with 9 enclosures 5149-091, 10 5149-23E node and 1 5149-23E management node. On the management node we have installed the IBM Storage Scale GUI that have several possibility....
4 months ago in Storage Scale System Future consideration

Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Automatic retrieval of the public SSL certificate for LDAP or z/OS connections.

Manually retrieving the public SSL certificate from each server to import it into CSM during LDAP configuration or when adding a z/OS connection can be cumbersome. There are many applications that query the remote server themselves to retrieve the...
19 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration
210 VOTE

mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System Future consideration

Option to retain current tape assignments when removing/editing VOLSER ranges

Currently, if you have a VOLSER range defined, if you delete it, it will remove all assignments from LLs for tapes within that range. It would be useful to have a simple checkbox/API flag that allows you to skip the unassigning of tapes when a VOL...
17 days ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library Future consideration

Automatic Recovery Enhancement for CSM Sessions After Temporary Switch Failures

In our environment, temporary switch port/SAN issues frequently cause CSM replication sessions to move into a Severe state and suspend MM/GM pairs.Even after the switch issue is resolved, CSM does not automatically clear the error or recover the s...
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) Future consideration

Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

Fusion HCI with SAN HBAs for Fusion Access

Fusion Access enables customers to use their existing SAN Block-Storage on OpenShift with our gpfs filesystem, which has significant advantages over block based CSI drivers!Unfortunately, this is only supported on Fusion SDS, as Fusion HCI does no...
9 months ago in Storage Fusion Future consideration

partition-specific CLI prompt

starting with 9.1.1 we can connect to individual partitions. when doing so thru ssh the CLI prompt (PS1) still shows the full controller's name. it would be very handy to have the partition's name displayed here. especially if you're operating on ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Better multi-tenancy support User ID wise

Hello, It would be great if the TS7700 provide improved multi-tenancy support for user IDs. For example, the ability to partition Hydra (Web) MI access so that individual users or clients can only view and manage their own “area” within the cluste...
10 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Future consideration