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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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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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decommission of a node or vm requires system level privilege

When decommissioning a node or VM – even if the user is the node owner they cannot decommission it. To decommission anything you have to have system level privileges. Yes, this is an issue as we have to provide elevated permissions to contractors ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Enable a search field for select a Virtual Machines into the IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments console.

Having a several vcenters, and into each Vcenter a huge among of virtual machines, it is hard to find one a VM to selected it to backup. We waste of time looking for these VMs, when we do not know which Vcenter it belong, so we need to display all...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

File restore GUI: Microsoft Windows user account cannot access its own user folders

When using File Restore GUI to restore single files to a Windows vm you get an access denied error when trying to restore files and folders protected by UAC. This can be profile folders (C:\Users) or the DATA folder in a SQL instance. The problem ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VMware Linux File-Level Restore Using Active Directory Domain Login ID

VMware Linux File-Level Restores does not allow for Microsoft Active Directory Domain based User Logins with Multifactor Authentication.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Backup VM process uses too much memory

The IFINCR backup VM job uses too much memory when processing guests especially in the initial phase when querying for previous backups images stored on the Spectrum Protect server.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSMve filerestoreUI and Windows Workgoup

The ability to restore from the new web interface "filerestoreUI" windows machines that are not integrated into a Windows domain (in workgroup mode)
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Missing Error messages when silent installation of Spectrum Protect for VE Recovery Agent fails

After installing successful the datamover in silent mode with this command: spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=Client,TSM4VE /silent ComponentsToInstallBa=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime ComponentsToInstallVe=LAP,TSMLicence,documents SU...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / VE Configuration report for troubleshooting & restores

VE Configuration report for restores to include the following columns: . VM Name . VM OS Platform . ESXi Cluster name . Datamover VE name . Datamover hostname . TSM/VE Server . Mount Proxy VE Name (based on the VM OS platform) . Mount Proxy hostname
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancements / Software Compliance-Compatability report

Integrated report between TSM/VE and vCenter on Software versions for the following components: . vCenter . ESXihost . VM Hardware . VMtools . TSM/VE Server . TSM/VE Datamover
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration