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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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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.

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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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TSM for System Back-up and Recovery

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Support for TSM Sysback V6.1 to back up VIO servers

I would like TSM Sysback to be usable for the backup of VIO servers, and not just the virtual AIX clients running on these VIO servers. These VIO servers, which are AIX based, can then have their backups implemented on a nightly basis in the same ...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Re-Map Volume Location

It would be beneficial to be able to offline a volume in a storage pool, for example your backuppool. Then at the OS level be able to manually move or copy the volume to a new physical location, log back into the TSM service and run a update vol t...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration

On W2008R2 TSM doesn't provide same functionality as Microsoft WBAdmin utility to restore specific file from Systemstate BCK.

When using TSM V6.2 on W2008R2, *.exe files are backup as part of System State Backup.With TSM V6.2, it is not possible to perfrom RESTORE of specif file/s from the System State Backup.Using Microsoft utility WBAdmin to perform the Backup, it is p...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 2 Not under consideration