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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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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:

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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,

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  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.


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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.

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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Single Item Restore - Security Risk

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager must be operating in an account with membership in the Organization Management group. You must also have local Administrator privilege.For Mailbox Restore and Mailbox Restore Browser operations, membership in t...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

FCM for mail with version 6.3.0.1 can not use different dsm.opt files.

FCM for mail with version 6.3.0.1 can not use different dsm.opt files. Alternate reference config and opt files are only usable with tdpexc andtdpexcc, but not for the MMC GUI for flashcopy.But this is necessary for the "mailbox browser" feature. ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

Better "mailbox restore" function in TDP for exchange

When using the mailbox restore, I want (miss) a checkpoint option. This options name could be "keep the restored data". It should secure that the restored data, not will be dismissed after one attemp of extracting the requested mail/calendar/conta...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Delivered

Exchange 2010 with DAG backup active/passive DBs

TSM for Mail is currently making a difference if a mailbox database is active or passive (Exchange 2010 using DAG). So for each kind of backup there will be kept the defined number of versions. (e.g. 7 Versions should be kept, so if the database i...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

Prevent storing duplicate filespaces in a DAG setup with active/active configuraiton

I have a customer where they use DAG setup on MS Exchange 2010. They move the active databases between the Exchange server nodes and this result in a new filespace under the proxy node used for backup of the Exchange environment. Thereby data are ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered