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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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Storage Protect Family

Preview all removable or source volumes that a MOVE DATA operation will require before execution. Generate a complete recall list of removable volumes for a specified source volume or set of volumes. Include all dependent volumes identified through aggreg

Preview all removable or source volumes that a MOVE DATA operation will require before execution. Generate a complete recall list of removable volumes for a specified source volume or set of volumes. Include all dependent volumes identified throug...
1 day ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted
117 VOTE

Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

Please add support for VMware Tanzu

We kindly ask you to  Officially support VMware Tanzu   Provide exclusion capabilities for unsupported resource types like Tanzu namespaces (When you add a vCenter Server instance to IBM Storage Protect the product performs an automat...

Enable NDMP NAS Restore to Alternate Filer Without Modifying Production Datamover Configuration

Background / Context The customer currently, restoring NDMP NAS backups to an alternate NetApp filer requires modifying the production datamover configuration (IP address and drive path). As documented in the IBM technote: https://www.ibm.com/supp...

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection

One of our customers backs up their Microsoft SQL Server environments using IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection. Unfortunately, Microsoft SQL Server 2025 is not supported by the current ISP for VE version 8.2.2 with...

Native Path/Pattern Exclusion for Dynamic Container Filesystems in BA Client

Modern Linux server environments running container orchestrators (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Podman) dynamically generate and tear down ephemeral virtual filesystems (e.g., overlay2, fuse-overlayfs, tmpfs) under predictable runtime directories...

Remove SQL Server 2016 PowerShell Extensions, SMO and CLR Types dependency from DP for SQL

IBM Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server (DP for SQL) currently requires Microsoft SQL Server 2016 prerequisite components, including: Microsoft SQL Server 2016 System CLR Types Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Management Objects (SMO) Windows PowerS...
about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Submitted

Provide a supported method to migrate retention sets, including all associated metadata and retention information, between IBM Storage Protect servers (e.g., AIX to Linux), enabling customers to decommission legacy environments

Product Enhancement Request (RFE) Title Provide a Supported Retention Set Migration Capability Between IBM Storage Protect Servers Why is this useful? Organizations commonly use IBM Storage Protect retention sets to satisfy long-term regulatory, l...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Request for Enhancement – Detailed Backup Object Metadata in IBM Storage Protect Server

Description: Currently, the Backup‑Archive Client (dsmc query backup -detail or GUI) displays Last Modified Date, Last Accessed Date, Backup Date, and file attributes of the backup object. However, the IBM Storage Protect server (e.g., BACKUPS tab...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

Increase REST API max requests per second limit

The limit is currently 3 requests per second. For clients with more than a couple environments running concurrently (snapshots, replication changes) this results in significant delays or even failures when using the REST API's.