Skip to Main Content
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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Flashcopy Manager

Showing 90

FCM Windows - support managment of snapshot XIV mirrors

Fairfax County would like FlashCopy Manager (FCM) in Windows to support management of XIV mirrored snapshots. They would also like to be able to set different policies for the XIV mirrored snapshots, if possible. They would like FCM to handle this...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Request for support for Tivoli Flash Copy Manager 2.2 support for Veritas File System on AIX 6.1

We would like to request that Tivoli Flash Copy Manager to be supported with Veritas File System with the following components: 1. ERMS and BW SAP systems running on Oracle 10g R2 DB2. Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 and Veritas File System. 3. Server ...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

response file for FCM silent setup

Possibility to create a response file for the FCM setup script setup_*.sh and to use it for silent setup on other FCM installations.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Enhance Altering

Currently (v3.1) FCM only reports its own error messages to the MMC. This is hard to monitor in an enterprise environment. The user should be informed about any aborted process. So, this enhancement is to add also error reports to e.g.:- SCOM (Sys...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Hint for possible outdated versions of BA and TDP Client

FCM installs the BA Client and the TDPs under the covers which are packaged within the FCM installation package. These versions can be outdated. The MMC config wizard should print a hint at a certain point in time that the BA and TDP version might...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM Win: Enhance support in clustered environments

The current configuration wizard in the MMC for the configuration of MSSQL, Exchange and NTFS volumes does not do any consideration if the application is running in a cluster. - FCM config wizard should configure the attributes: VSSALTSTAGINGDIR a...
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM vCenterPlugin: Email notification

If a job fails, it only can be seen in the vCenter Plugin, so the administrators always have to take a look in the Plugin in order to check if the backup schedules were successfully. It is necessary to have a functionality to send out an email onc...
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

FCM vCenterPlugin: Possibility to disable a job

Currently in the vCenter Plugin it is not possible to disable a schedule. The only possibility to "disable" a schedule is to delete the schedule or to set it to a time very very far in future.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Not under consideration

FCM: ZFS Support for Solaris

THE main volume manager for clustered systems is zfs. Without this support FCM for Solaris only can be used in a very small amounts of Solaris systems.
almost 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Email alerting

Alert when job fails as a supplement to reports.
about 13 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration