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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    Flashcopy Manager 4.1.6 for Windows does not cleanup volumes in registry after successfull snapshot

    On Windows 2008 R2 SP1, with SQL 2012 SP4. When using Flashcopy manager 4.1.6 to take snapshots to an v7000 storwize of the databases with IBM hardware provider 4.15. using BA client 7.1.8.2 and TDP 7.1.6.0.Every snapshot made is filling up the wi...
    about 7 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Backup and Restore Storage Pool by using TSM Storage Agent

    Currently Backup and Restore storage pool can only be done by TSM Server. Meanwhile there are many TSM Storage Agents deployed on the environment which are idle during non backup window. Backup data is always getting bigger, and increasing the TSM...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

    Client Side de-dupe when LAN Free backup on disk using GPFS

    Ability to enable to client side data deduplication functionality in case of LAN free backup on disk in GPFS environment.
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Not under consideration

    HOST Free SAN based data transfer

    At present, TSM for SAN allows for a TSM Server free data transfer by mapping Tape drives to the client server. The data is then read in from the Disk subsystem via the host HBAs, and then read out to the Tape drives via the host HBAs dedicated to...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

    HSM Slow Recall in LAN Free environment

    got the following feedback from development: [...] as stated by GPFS development, the dm_request_right takes a lot of of execution time due to required context switches. More calls of dm_request_right causes the greater slowdown. So,in order to im...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 2 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

    The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
    almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Restore of Archive-Mailbox from Exchange via Flash Copy Manager

    Swiss National Bank is not satisfied with the answer we got for PMR 05632,031,848. We were referred to Technote 1598343 ( http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21598343 ) which states that TDP Exchange / FlashCopy Manager does not suppo...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    OPCenter server can access the internet through a HTTP proxy

    IBM Ticket : TS007157717 Hello, I would like to contact you beacause I am simply looking for an answer to a question.I'm looking to implement the auto-deploy feature for a client. The OPCenter server can access the internet through a network proxy...
    about 4 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Support DB2 systems running on GPFS with FCM

    DB2 supports build and operation on GPFS filesystems. Currently FCM does not support DB2 on GPFS (except for pureScale). Unilever would like a single filesystem pattern across pureScale and non-pureScale - based on GPFS. This implies an ability to...
    over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Decomission Enhancements

    We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
    over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

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