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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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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.


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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.

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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Options for SPS Offload

The tape_backup function creates a "db2 backup database" command for the offload of a FlashCopy image to TSM. This works fine but I am not able to add any backup options to this command. It is assembled by SPS. But it would be very useful to add o...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Submitted

CLONE_DATABASE_MEMORY (Db2) should be configurable PER TARGET

If you have a machine with multiple FCM clones of DB2 databases, they may have very different sizes and sizing requirements, in particular when the original (source) system has way more memory than the destination (clone target) system. Option CLO...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted