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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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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:

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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.


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.

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Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

IM SPectrum Protect support for expired data report

URGENT Requirement : Nedbank, in South Africa, are a large consumer of Spectrum Protect ans many other IBM products and are an ELA customer.. They urgently require assistance with an enhancement for them to be able to see when files were expired/d...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Enhanced security for admin access to Protect

Administrative access to Spectrum Protect (including but not limited to the WebUI) has a weak security model.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Add Support FlashCopy Backup and Clone Presets

The FlashCopy function in Spectrum Virtualize offers backup and clone functions that SCDM currently doesnt support it would be great to have the ability to create SLAs supporting FlashCopy backup and clone in SCDM to add to FlashCopy NoCopy and Fl...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration