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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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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...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Ubuntu on s390x support for Spectrum Project Client

Originally requested in 2019 and was marked for future consideration, IBM support Ubuntu on s390x Linux on Z however does not provide a backup client for Spectrum on an IBM platform s390x Linux on Z.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Opject Agent support for AIX

Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

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.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow ISF SW version licensing based on TB instead of VPCs for small setups

We are facing problems on the pricing of ISF based on VPCs for small setups as they only need a range of 10-20TB . When doing the VPC pricing is really hard to sell the product at this stage as customer are not needing a high capacity
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Enable storage firmware or patches upgrade via Storage Insights

Storage Insights gives recommendations for firmware upgrades and security patch installs. For a huge storage customer base, the upgrading/installing would be time taking and error prone. Amadeus is one such customer who is looking for storage firm...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

installCSMDSCLI.sh env var CSM_ProductionRoot split into 2 vars

In zOS CSM DSCLI, one must run the SAMPLIB(IWNINST2) job to actually install the product via script installCSMDSCLI.sh. The script requires 3 environment variables to be set:CSM_InstallRootCSM_ProductionRootCSM_JAVA_DIR The CSM_ProductionRoot path...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

IBM SV data change rate integrated report

IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

allow a time offset in the passticket generation

Necessary if CSM is managing across time zones
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Copy or Tier Storage pool data of File Device class type to S3 compatible COS bucket with Retention Lock set

As we know it is difficult for Spectrum Protect to manage dedup extents when stored or tiered to a cloud container storage pool and is a major development work, IBM developers may think of introducing this functionality which may be quicker and ea...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration