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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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SNMP Query support for Storwise V3700

The V3700 SNMP Implementation only pushes management/monitoring information. We have a large OEM Opportunity that requires the ability to pull SNMP data for automated management purposes. SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on th...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add virtualmountpoint support for Spectrum Protect for Space Management on Spectrum Scale servers

Please allow Spectrum Protect for Space Management in a Spectrum Scale environment to operate on virtualmountpoints. This means support in the following scenario: 1) A large Spectrum Scale file system is split into multiple smaller filesets. 2) Ea...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support multiple DB2 databases within a single instance

FEPOC owns Flashcopy Manager for DB2 and has performed a Proof of Concept (POC) and identified changes required to the current DB2 environment in order to implement flashcopy. A problem was identified in the POC based on CCTI's unique architecture...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Security non compliance with Windows VM self-service file-level restore requiring a Domain administrator account

Spectrum Protect for VE Self-Service file-level restore uses the domain administrator credentials to access network shares on the remote virtual machine.This is seen in many cases as a gab in the security and a risk of security non compliance for ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SPP - Ability to deploy SPP server VM in KVM

Customers requires to run SP server and SPP server in one box / server HW, but SPP server is not supported to run i KVM.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Official support for DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Server

Although it is easy to find IBM documents recommending DB2 HADR as a replication solution for Spectrum Protect Server database (f.i. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6212198) it is not oficially supported. For this reason these products are ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Support more Kafka Authentication Methods

Currently, SASL using plaintext username/password is the only Auth method supported for using the Notification feature in COS. Customers would like to use Kafka's more secure authentication methods. The request is to support all of the auth method...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Ability to split/join storage pools from disparate COS systems

Customers would like to have flexibility with moving/splitting/joining storage pools under the ownership of different COS systems. For example, if a customer must divest a certain portion of data, but the rest, but also keep COS, there is no way t...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Fs Permission denined still Backup reporting as completed with this error TS004208374

we are facing backup issue, we have NFS volumes backups. one of the volume backup not happening, and schedules showing backup got completed. Please find the below error. 08/20/2020 03:30:10 ANS4007E Error processing '/netapp/bocfshanamc36-sapds-sv...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Storage Insights Pro on-prem array access credentials protocol requested

RPQ required for Spectrum Storage Insights Pro. The storage system credentials are required for Storage Insights to be able to collect data. These credentials are encrypted before being stored in the Storage Insights database, and the databases it...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration