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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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Spectrum Control on Red Hat on Power LE

Spectrum Control need to run on these architectures: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (may be other distributions) on Power Little Endian Architectures (RHEL 8.x LE on S9xx L servers, LCxxx servers, AC922 servers). All the stack is from IBM or subsidiaries.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

Report or chart that shows SVC node/IOgroup balance at a glance

To better balance the workload across IOgroups, it's important to see the # of hosts, IOPS, throughput, etc. that each IOgroup is handling. Need a report that shows the IOgroup workload for all 4 IOgroups side-by-side in an SVC cluster. This helps...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI need to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen.

V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy needs to show all consistency groups and their freeze times on first screen. V8.4.0.5 Remote Copy GUI now takes 16 keystrokes to view 7 consistency group freeze times. It takes 3 keystrokes to view one consistency group freeze...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Future consideration

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP

Possibility to configure all log retentions or group them like Job Logs , Access Log and System Logs in SPP.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support GC-GC cascaded start option in 3 site MT sessions

When using CSM for migration scenarios in 3 site topologies, a typical approach is to migrate via PPRC Failover or HyperSwap from old MGM cascade to a new GC-GC cascade. Today, the new GC-GC cascade requires to use temporary 2 site MM sessions bei...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Provide option to prevent object-splitting on tape

Having clients archiving and restoring directly to and from tape we're trying to have the least possible amount of tape mounts. However at the end of a lot of tapes the last file gets split when EOV occurs. There should be an option to consider a ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus - G Suite support needed

We need local backup for ours users who has been migrate from Domino to G Suite.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Set permission for support: with customized client message or schedule of when collection of support data is allowed

Currently client can define in “set permission for support” if he allows support to collect support data without asking the client in advance This new feature will allow customer to either set a customized message 1/ ““Please collect data via SI o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Print QR code when setting up MFA in dsmadmc

The new MFA/TOTP support for admin accounts is great, but it's cumbersome to set up when using dsmadmc due to the need to manually enter the shared secret in the MFA smartphone app. The solution is to print a QR code, and that works fine even in a...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration