Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:

Search existing ideas

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,

Post your ideas
  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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

Showing 87

VADP Proxy load statistics dashboard

Add dashboard that shows load per per proxy (and # of tasks executed) per exectured SLA. Provide more system performance info; Are all proxy's used?, are proxys rightly scaled? are all jobs active etc.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC vPlex (VNXe/Unity)

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs and vPlex on VNXe/Unity for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

HW Snapshot support in SPP for DellEMC Compellent

Customer is running a PoC on SPP and part of the PoC are support for HW snapshot. Customer is using DellEMC Compellent hardware for most VMs. Customer also use vPlex+VNXe for mission critical VMs.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

allow VM exclusion via tagging in Spectrum Protect Plus

please add the capability to exclude VMs based upon specific vSphere Tags, in addition to the ability to include via tagging.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Need to add the functionality for VM multi-writer enabled disks backup. (Object. CBT-enabled VM having multi-writer disk(s))

Hello Team, We configured few VM backup In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and those are getting failed due to multi-writer enabled on their disks. too resolve this issue, we raised a case (case # TS008530431). We get an update that in case is there is ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

CDM appliance self-monitoring

The functionality of the CDM processes themselves should be monitored on the appliance and the possibility to receive alerts when the main CDM program has problems.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

VM move from one VC to another schould be recognized by SPP

In large and grown VMware environments it can happen that VMs have to be moved from one virtual center to the next in the same cluster. With Virtual Centers that have existed for many years, VMware Support may recommend installing a new VC and mov...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect FreeBSD client

I would like to request support for Spectrum Protect Client that runs natively on FreeBSD.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Hadoop support by SPP

Ability to backup and restore Hadoop data with Spectrum Protect Plus
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

Report Restore VM in SPP

Auditor person want to report restore same as menu function report vm backup history but in ibm spectrum protect plus not have
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration