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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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SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Oracle Agentless Cold Backups

IBM Spectrum Protect PlusOracle Agentless COLD Backups Current versions of IBM SPP only support Hot backups. Our customer has all they Development environment with Oracle in non Archive log mode. Causing SPP not a viable option to implement backups.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

OSSM master encyption key needs to be protected from loss

If the OSSM master encyption key is lost, the protected data stored on the IBM Storage Protect server cannot be recovered for the IBM Storage Protect Plus client. The product needs a better resiliency mecanism to avoid the loss of that key.
6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Request for managing Copy functions in the DS GUI

We have several customers Open / IBMi / zOS who use mirrored DS8000 and who currently use the Old GUI for management of the Mirroring and FlashCopy.CSM is economically not an option for them.
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Alternative Archive Destination with Oracle

If, for any reason, the DB or Backup has had a problem und the archive destination is filled for 100% the DB get's in stuck.DB Administrator will choose an alternative archive destination.After Backup works again, it only backup the archive logs f...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

We need this to be MSP friendly to allow multi tenanted view of our customers

We are an MSP and it would be a good way to monitor our customers environments
7 months ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Direct Offload to Spectrum Protect

Enable the direct offload to Spectrum Protect without the requirement to have a copy of the data offloaded in the vSnap.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

ESS call home for disk failures should include the RG\disk name in the IBM case title

In ESS call home for disk failures, when a case is created the case title is very generic and reports an error number 'Error Code: DSK00001'. Problem The challenge is that when disks fail, it is difficult to relate a specific disk failure to an IB...
over 1 year ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Provide a changelog for Scale releases

Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Bring FICON ports offline

We have TS7700 that need to be isolated from production system. Having the possibility to vary FICON port down on VTS will add another security for data.
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 4 Future consideration