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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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Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
14 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
17 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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...
4 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

IBM CSM LDAP Configuration to Improve Handling of Recursive Search Directive

Many companies today utilize nested LDAP groups for privileges, which configuration today is only possible to support in CSM by manually adding the "recursiveSearch=true" directive into the XML in the Advanced tab of LDAP Configuration. If any inf...
7 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 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...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Completely deactivate LI REQ support

Hello, In a multi-tenant environment, where each tenant individually manages their RACF configuration, it would be important to have the ability to completely deactivate LI REQ support via the Hydra (web) Management Interface (MI) or through a RES...
5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration
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mmrestorefs into REST API.

The proper long term solution is to request a new feature to implement 'mmrestorefs' into REST API.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 3 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...
9 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

FlashCopy -- limit to specific volser ranges or categories

Currently, FlashCopy for DR saves a copy of EVERY tape that has changed. This is excessive, using a lot of cache unnecessarily when DR exercises are being done for a host/client that only uses a small subset of those tapes. And when you have a hos...
25 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Ability to set a legal notice on login page to GUI and TSSC

Ability to set a legal notice on login to GUI and TSSC pages. A requirement is that we have a legal notice on the login pages to the GUI/TSSC to reinforce around the computer misuse act. This is a risk requirement of the organization backed by reg...
26 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration