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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).


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.

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Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments

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Individual File Restore XFS Support

Currently TSM4VE Individual File Restore does not support XFS file systems. However, XFS is used very commonly in Linux systems because of it's high performance.In SLES for example XFS is the recommended choice for large file systems. Our research...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Delete INACTIVE_VERSIONS vStorage Backups

The possibility to delete any files (ACTIVE or INACTIVE) vStorage Backups by TSM Client commands like work a TSM BaclientOr like this procedure: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21418136

Full VM restores place the VM in the parent Datacenter folder and Resource group

When doing a full VM restore and selecting "Original Location", the VM is restored to the parent Data Center folder and parent Resource group in Virtual Center. Given VM permissions can be managed at the folder level in Virtual Center, when a rest...

TSM support for backing up VMWare vCloud Director

Looking for TSM support for backing up VMWare vCloud Director.
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered