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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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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.

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Spectrum Protect Disk Migration single thread

In a disk storage pool with only 1 node the migration process from Disk to tape is single threaded. The only way today around this is to use File device classes. We would prefer not to use File devices classes as these add other overheads. There i...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

TSM V6: Show Us the Tables, Please

Please expose to the SELECT command in TSM V6 (and later, if any) all of the internal tables that TSM uses, with exceptions for things like passwords and other sensitive information.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Deliver sha2 and md5 hash for software downloads

To ensure authenticity and immutability of software downloaded from IBM web- and ftp sites, a hash should be provided in a secure space or via email.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

ITM for TSM agent (SK) is un-usable in existing environment

ITM for Tivoli Storage Manager is only offered as an all-inclusive ITM installation (utilizing the much loathed DE no less..) This packaging is different than any other ITM agent offered by IBM that we have seen. It makes remotely deploying, maint...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

FlashCopyManager on WS2016 CORE

As discussed with IBM support through PMR 87628,122,000, the FlashCopyManager tool fails to open on Windows Server 2016 Core. The error is due to mmc.exe no longer existing on Windows Server 2016. We want to request a new version of FlashCopyManag...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

cloud storage support for HCP with TSM

Please consider adding support for Hitachi HCP cloud storage on TSM server 7.x going forward.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Allow for full TLS configuration of TSM server

We currently offer backups to our customers where the internet is the transport network. This requires the use of TLS. However, TSM does not allow for configuration of TLS Ciphers, making it impossible to enable PFS ciphers supported by GSKIT. TSM...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Retain by objects versions in primary Pools. Data lifecycle optimization.

Allow primary storage pool to store only ACTIVE versions, X inactive versions or XX days of inactive versions. Mark and Migrate to next storage pool only the inactive versions.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

How to stop Hyper-V from using the 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provider' to run VM snapshots.

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 the backup work with 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provide...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

Auto deployment and updates of existing TSM Clients

Auto deployment and updates of existing TSM Clients
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered