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 944 of 5500

TSM should support NDMP backup with VTL libtype

TSM Server should support NDMP backups with libtype VTL. It's documented that generally backups are faster when using a VTL and libtype is set to VTL instead of SCSI. Due to the limitation of TSM libtype VTL cannot be used as NDMP backups are not ...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

Changing Retention between Source and Target Replicated Nodes

We need the ability to have different retentions between on the source and target for each replicated node. That way we can store active data for the short term on the source and change the replicated node to long term retention.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Support for Sony Library ODS-L30M

Support for Sony optical libraries (Sony ODS-L30M).Increase the support list in optical libraries for Spectrum Protect (TSM)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to logically group multiple storage pool as 'Storage Groups'

Currently, all housekeeping jobs are done on a per storage pool basis. e.g.PARALLELmigrate stg pool1 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool2 lo=0 wait=yesmigrate stg pool3 lo=0 wait=yesSERIAL PARALLELreclaim stg pool1 thr=50 wait=yesreclaim stg pool2 thr=5...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Allow the use of cloud container pool as replication source

At present, cloud container pools can be used as a replication target but not replication source. This is an issue as it means if the replication source server is destroyed or becomes unavailable, it is not possible to replicate the data back to a...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Leverage Cloud container pool directory as restore cache

SP 7.1.6 introduced the concept of using local storage as a fast ingest cache in a cloud container pool. I propose that the same or similar cache is used to mask the low per-stream object performance.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

TSM "server to server" replication

NOTE: Collin Dawson is aware of this discussion.According to Collin this is a great Idea. Good for the EAP also.TSM "server to server" replication should prefereably be done in Policy domain rather than on Node Level. (node level now in plans)Is d...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Generate Backupset enhancements

We use the Generate Backupset option for long term offsite storage. With this we use Nodegroups to capture depending on how long a set should be kept for. What would be nice is if: A) reporting was a little more accurate...when a set runs I'll hav...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Admin API

Please document and open the admin api to the server. There seems to be an API which is used eg. by Tivoli Integrated Portal as I can see XML in tcpdumps. Maybe you still use something like SOAP. So providing an WSDL and/or Interfaces to .NET and ...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under 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.