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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Parallel disk merging and VM Creation during multiple VM restore.

When we initiate multiple VM restore, we have observed that VM creation and disk merging is going in sequential manner. One VM is getting created at a time after disk merging process. Whereas if it is possible to perform parallel VM creation and d...
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

How to calculate backed data volume on Replication / SPPArchive / Cloud storage?

HalloBacked up date is storing on BACKUP vsnap and then are copied to REPLCATION VSNAP (and maybe Cloud, SPPArchive/tape) We can easily calculate size of backed up date on BACKUP vsnap based on output from this endpoint: "/api/endeavour/catalog/re...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

SSD Cache for Archive backup extraction

we are using SP as a backup repository in order to archive backups from SPP to tape. during archive backup. the data is compress at the vsnap, stored to colddatacache pool and then migrated to tape on the SP server. the restoration process is the ...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review