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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    Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

    When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Enable Password Expiry Visibility in Storage Defender

    Storage Defender currently lacks a feature to display or monitor password expiry dates for user accounts. This limitation affects all account types, including both individual user accounts and functional accounts used for automation and integratio...
    3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Integrate GKLM into Defender for Key Management/Monitoring

    Integrate IBM Storage Defender with IBM Global Key Lifecycle Management (GKLM) to enhance key management and monitoring capabilities. Objectives: Enable Storage Defender’s Disaster Recovery Service (DRS) to recognize and interface with GKLM server...
    7 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 2 Under review

    Add Support for OpenSource DBs like PSQL, MySQL

    As an Enterprise Backup solution, Storage Protect should have the ability to integrate with very widely used DB systems such as PostgreSQL (Used in Enterprises as much as in smaller business and private environments). Storing Backups using the DB ...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

    Support for SQL Express

    Today SQL Express is not supported. But there is no reason for why. It has all the functionality as the FULL sql, except limits on CPU and RAM. Backups works fine etc. The only part that will not work today is the mmc gui that wont complete its co...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

    Change the IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server autoselect to select backups prior to the backup endtime, instead of the backups prior to the backup starttime

    The LSN (Log Sequence Number) checkpoint is created when an SQL backup concludes. This can lead to the autoselect function in IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for Microsoft SQL Server, selecting a log backup between the Difffuls or Full backups start...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Under review

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