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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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FlashCopy Manager - enable higher values for SVC_COPY_RATE

Please increase possible values for parameter SVC_COPY_RATE to numbers higher than 100.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

File Indexing numbers

Need to add option to get current utilization of file indexing numbers as we have limit in SPP
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SI to Include IBM DS8XXX Frames in an Inventory View

We would like to see a way in Storage Insights Pro to see an inventory list of all DS8 frames.Ideally I would like to see an Inventory table which lists out all frames for all the DS8 devices, but at a minimum we should have an Inventory tab withi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

select more than 20 nodes (VM's) per vCenter for Backup

In the vCenter plugin extension we can select only 20 VM's. If we select more, we will get an error, that only 20 are possible in one backup. In some cases (failed backups) we need to restart more than 20 VMs from the vCenter GUI.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Prioritising tape replication by catagory/dataclass

Currently data replication is performed on a fifo algorithm so as soon as a tape is available and there is a spare replication thread the tape will start to replicate. We have a situation where we have batch jobs that use a tape category for large...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Adding additional Global Preferences for Default Restore Job

Since Version 10.1.5, when doing a restore, you can choose between "default setup" and "advanced setup". For the user doing a restore, the default setup should automatically use the most common values. In our customers environment, this would for ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM &HSM independently backup data & metadata

It is about making TSM (SpectrumProtect) and HSM ready to deal with large number of files and huge data pods by doing backup of data independently from meta data.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure alert summary email frequency

IBM Spectrum Protect offers the ability to enable sending an alert summary email up to three admin ids. The option (set alertsummarytoadmins) is not configurable. If you specify an adminid a summary email will be send every hour. Its not possible ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Migrate data from Spectrum Protect (Existing S3 pools to different Cloud Object Storage)

To migrate data from existing IBM Clever Safe Object Storage bucket to different S3 compatible buckets using Spectrum Protect TSM server.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration