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

Spectrum Protect (Server)

Showing 115

SP Operation Center backup success rate improvement

On the Operation Center, backup success rate is calculated by every node that is registered to the TSM Servers. However, this is not correct approach on every customer environment.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

IBM Spectrum Protect - Active Directory 2012 Support for LDAP Password Authentication

After checking through your documentation it would appear that when trying to use LDAP password authentication, Active Directory 2012 isn't currently supported. I've raised a support call and your technical team have confirmed this is the case - t...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

TSM Server should show TDP version, not API version.

As it is today, if the user tries to see detailed information about a TDP node on the TSM server, it not shows the TDP version but the API version.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Duration Limit on Node Replication

Our company has a need to use node replication, but we have to restrict its operation to a limited daily window. We would like to see a duration parameter similar in function to the one provided with the expiration command. As things stand now, so...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Support Amazon AWS for storage pools in TSM

Support Amazon AWS and other lower cost cloud storage providers for storage in TSM pools
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

backup stgpool improvement

the 'backup stgpool' comand should be smarter.. for example if I run backup stg maxproc=4, and there is 1 process already running, it should start another 3. instead, it says 'backup stg already running' Also, another useful option would be to set...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Provide accounting records for NDMP backups and restores

NDMP full/differential backups (and restores) should create an accounting session record in dsmaccnt just as client backups do, containing at a mimum start/end time and bytes transferred, but also if possible commwait and mediawait times. (Anythin...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.

Allowing authentication to external LDAP as meeting password complexity locally.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Fix Label Libvolume to report failure when encountering errors instead of failing to work yet reporting Success.

Label Libvolume processes can encounter errors but report Completed Successfully
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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.