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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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Product functionality

All-in-one TSM backup appliance

TSM virtual appliance (VA) consisting of TSM server, TSM-VE and TSM Ops Center components, with support for using TSM VA with tape as a supported product in a customer production environment, also with the possibility to pair the appliance with an...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention

TSM 7.2 rebackup prevention - TSM should not backup files which were just restored (most recent version) by TSM, on next incremental.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.

Possibility to analyze all client options from TSM server regardless if it's in client option file or on server.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization.

Possibility to throttle backup client resource utilization. Many times there are resource conflict for backups that are running “overtime”. The backup has been/is running until outside backup window. And the user, application owner want to cancel/...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. need random order

As it is today the TSM BA Client backup the local file spaces in sequencially order, starting from C: to X:. I want to have an random order or some intelligence, that the TSM code should start to backup the file spaces with oldest successfully bac...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

Analytics on error logs for faster resolution times

Analytics on error logs for faster resolution times
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

Enumerate VMs to be backed up

Enumerate VMs to be backed up
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

Multiple data movers

Multiple data movers
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

VM Quiescing

VM Quiescing
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality Not under consideration