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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TSM Image Backup of encrypted Guardium FS (secfm)

Current Situation and urgent request for enhancement: In our customer environment and according projects encryption services for a Filesystems or Databases are introduced on a regular basis. TSM as our backup suite therefore needs the ability to h...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

extent mirroring rather than migrate within the context of EasyTier

Customer is requesting that the EasyTier functionality that currently migrates extents from spinning disk to SSD/Flash incorporate an extent mirror command instead.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Detecting bad network connection and perform preventive Action.

When there is a Bad Network connection there is a possibility of receiving malformed or out of sequence Commands. The Spectrum Virtualize products are reacting to this anomaly by rebooting themselves, sometimes both nodes rebooting simultaneously....
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support VMware 6.5 and SVC v8.2 with FCM 4.1.6

Require support for FCM/TSM4VE 4.1.6/7.1.6 with VMware ESX 6.5 and SVC 8.2.x
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Mirror snapshots to another cluster as a destination snapshot

Ability to mirror a snapshot to a remote cluster - as a snapshot.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Fast approximate df for filesets

mmlsfileset df calculations are slow and causes high load on a server.  A fast approximate filesetdf (alike mmlsquota) is needed.
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v5.9

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version and oython 2.4.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 10g.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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