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

My votes: Spectrum Protect (Server)

Showing 196

Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 Retrule for NDMP data

Client have requirement to retain the NDMP data for long term retention. We have upgraded the Spectrum Protect servers from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and tried to enable the retrule for NDMP data. But unfortunately that feature is not enabled for NDMP /datam...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Handle LTO9+ initialization process with parallellisation

I would like a dedicated command added to the SP server admin client for initialization of LTO9+ volumes. I have seen TL43-I-23, but doing it in SP makes it work for all libraries, not just TS. When we first took the LTO9 library in use, I scripte...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support COHESITY SmartFiles S3 Object Lock for IBM Storage Protect Container Storage Pools

It is a major Storage Protect customer request. This customer has a project to integrate COHESITY SmartFiles and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Storage Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Replication Workload

The workload value for the node replication in spectrum protect is based on an estimated value. The complete history of this value is visible when the summary table is filtered for activity='REPL_WORKLOAD'. The last value of repl_workload is also ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

cache for directory container pools

it will be great to have a cache for directory container pool in order to temporary store the data received and then migrate them to directory container. using faster disks like ssd as a temp pool will significant improve backup and replication sp...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

In clustered (HA) environments, Spectrum Protect should support installing interim fixes without downtime

We are using Spectrum Product for Data Retention in a document centric application step, that serves access to contract statements over the web in an always on environment. Maintenance (major version or scheduled FP upgrade) is expected to be deli...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support DELL ECS S3 Object Lock for Spectrum Protect Backup

It is a major Spectrum Protect customer request. This customer already owns DELL ECS and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Spectrum Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SP support for encryption of DB backup

SP support as of SP 8.1.10 encryption of DB backups when backing up the DB to Cloud. The encrypted DB backup is protected by a password. Similar functionality should be available when backing up the SP database to other device types including sequ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

tape overwrite function for copy-container storage pools

Please implement a way to overwrite a tape in a container-copy storage pool. In sequential pools you could just use the "move data" command for this and move the data from one tape to another without losing temporary copy coverage or messing with ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.