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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Add LTO lcd display to drives view

Add a column to drives view that shows the LCD status digit for LTO drives.
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Protecting Wide Cluster resources using Fusion UI

If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Check Backed up OpenShift Resources through Fusion UI

Only way to verify backed up resources within a namespace is using scripts. Doing this through Fusion UI is going to be a lot better. Specially in larger OCP deployments.
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

Oracle log backup status

The status of the Oracle log backup is found only in the job log. We would like the log backups to be more visible and easy to check for success or failure. If a failure of the Oracle DB is bad, we need to see a failure on the backup job on the da...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Allow JBB daemon to process files without a full backup completion stamp

Allow JBB daemon to start track files immediately, and upon request from dsmc using jbb, give the file list straight away. The full backup can be run in parallel, and may take weeks to complete, but the deltas can be backed up straight away.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Provide Splunk Integration for Spectrum Protect Plus

Allow SPP audit logs and VSNAP logs to be forwarded to Splunk or another platform for easier monitoring.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Edit SLA Policy name

Enable the customer to edit the name of an SLA Policy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Enhance zero touch agent injection by automatically making the changes to support SPP agent to the server

Customer has requested making the zero touch agent injection process simpler. For this specific case, the pre-requisites to inject an agent on a Linux server is a lengthy process. They would like to see if this can be done automatically when deplo...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SP SERVER/OP CENTER: ENHANCE OPERATONS CENTER TO MANIPULATE ALL THE SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS AS IN SERVER COMMAND LINE

Enhance Operations Center with the same functions to control Client Scheduling with the same options present with Server Command Line in a WEB/GUI Interface and view.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Externalise Achive to tape backup

Hello, I dont know why you have created an archive to tape solution without any possibility to externalise the tapes. We really need this option fefore we are going to another solution. Regards, Nabil AMER
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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