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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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Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Add an option to quorum groups

We need to add the ability to select specific users for each rule to the quorum, not just the entire cluster. For example, we want to add a rule to restore VMs and Virtual Disks to a specific user group, not the entire cluster.
3 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data Prote...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Enable file and folder-level recovery of objects from AIX systems archived on IBM Storage Protect by using the IBM Storage Defender Data Protect object agent S3 interface

Currently, file and folder-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archives AIX objects to IBM Storage Protect using its S3 tape storage interface. We request an enhancement to the...
6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Defender Data Protect - File/Folder-level recovery of AIX file-based backups from tape-based external targets IBM Storage Protect

Current Limitation: Currently, file-level recovery from tape-based S3-compatible storage is either unsupported when IBM Storage Defender Data Protect archive AIX objects using IBM Storage Protect. We request an enhancement of IBM Storage Defender ...
6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Reduce the requirements for Microsoft Exchange

Some other backup solutions doesn't need the whole admin rights for Exchange. Example VEEAM: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/required_permissions.html?zoom_highlight=exchange&ver=120 Commvault: https://documentation.commvault....
8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

Replicate backups to S3 object-lock repository (e.g IBM COS, IBM Ceph)

Many of our IBM clients have listened to our cyber resiliency messaging and looked to re-introduce a "3rd" copy of the data. In alignment with industry standardization for "321" backup methodology it is important to have an isolated and secure rep...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Future consideration

add full DB2 Backup and Restore support to DDP

we use DDP for VMware, AD, MS SQL, Container, Mongo DB, physical server, clusters and as an S3 target for all applications without agent support or embedded S3 support. Our biggest workload, IBM DB2, is the only application still on ISP. That make...
5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

On premises S3 as a source for protection

Many customers are starting to ask for on premises S3 to be protected as part of their daily routine. Defender DP can currently protect S3 data based on AWS ( https://docs.cohesity.com/7_1_2/Web/UserGuide/Content/Cloud/protect-amazon-s3.htm?Highli...
over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1

Defender Data Protect (DDP) Configuration Backup

Why is it useful? A DDP configuration backup is essential for quick recovery and business continuity in isolated environments without a remote cluster. Without it, a DDP server failure means manual re-configuration and re-onboarding, leading to si...
4 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 2 Needs more information