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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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Spectrum Protect REST API : Further Development

The Spectrum Protect Client Management Service allows REST API calls to start a backup, restore, update BA client configs, restart daemons, and so on. It is a great initiative. And we need something like that. More than ever now that the BA webage...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

CSM To have options in GUI to export and import Web Certificates

Requesting there to be functionality within the CSM application in order to export and import the web certificates used by the CSM web GUI. I had raised the mentioned PMR to inquire about the process as it was not included in the documentation I c...
about 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center

would like the TSM Script Editing feature that was in the Administration Center to be in Operations Center.The Admin Center Script editor was pretty “low function”, but at least it allowed changes and cut and paste. And it had a nice syntax checki...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Enable TLS encryption as default for Mail Notifications

As default, it is not possible to use the Mail Notifications from (e.g.) CSM 6.2.8 to send mails with TLS encryption. If you contact an Exchange Server where sending from E-Mails without encryption is not allowed, you got during SMTP Server setup ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Add volume group filtering option to Add Copy Sets Wizard in addition to LSS

We would like to use CSM for our IBM i, Linux, VIOS, and AIX volumes. Unlike the mainframe storage team, we do not use LSS to manage our disk. All of our disk activities are performed via volume group in the DS8000 GUI. The flash copy option has r...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Simplify and Enhance the Copyset Build Process using the GUI Copyset Build Wizard

We utilize CSM in our environment a lot and that utilization is increasing. Typically and probably for most users, we build the session and then have to go out to excel or some other method externally to build the .csv to build the copyset pairing...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM To Include the System and Path for any Alert Message About Paths

Please include the system and the path in any email notifications about paths. Also these messages should be logged to the console as well as being sent in email.
over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

When Safeguarded Copy is out of capacity, allow for either oldest to delete or newest to not be created

Give Safeguarded Copy customers a choice to either not create a new copy, or delete the oldest copy when SGC capacity is not sufficient to create a new copy
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

.NET Wrapper for TSM API

A mono-project (http://www.mono-project.com/) wrapper for the TSM API is desirable, in order to ease development of utilities and add-ons to the TSM Server
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration