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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 protect, official support for RedHat 8

Hi. There is a need to use RedHat 8 servers. Lacking support for backups on Spectrum Protect
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

LI REQ Commands to display Network Port Information

The current LI REQ,xxxxx,STATUS,RDP,FxPyz is a great command and useful for FICON port connectivity. Would this command be able to expand for all Network connections as well? For example on a DS8000 DCLI command I can view all IOPORTS, NETWORKPORT...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

Retain last X backups beyond date based expiration

Retain a configurable amount of backups beyond date based retention, requiring administrator action to delete.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Improved TS4300 Library Security with MFA Support

For security reasons, it would be interesting if access to the TS4300 web management interface was controlled by MFA support (Multi Factor Authentication).
6 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Planned for future release

Support Windows 2019 on the SP B/A client

More and more customers are asking about when we will support Windows Server 2019 to be able to install the B/A client.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

Lack of anomaly scanning integration with IBM Spectrum Protect Family

Lack of anomaly scanning integration to detect, diagnose and recover clean copies from a Cyber attack with IBM Spectrum Protect Family.Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption an IBM supported Cyber Resiliency solution.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release

IBM support ideas for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 for 2023 for TS7700 and TS4500

This would benefit Wells Fargo for the most updated security.
over 1 year ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1

Support for vCenter 6.7 U1
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Add support for direct attached tape by updating the interface to adhere to more recent standards (Fibre Channel, Ethernet, iSCSI) to support standalone connection to Power10

Currently the external tape drive supports 8Gb/s Fibre Channel which is N-3. Updating to 16Gb/s or 32Gb/s or 64Gb/s as well as adding support for Ethernet and iSCSI connectivity is required. This will enable greater flexibility, resiliency and per...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Snapshots support for Virtualize, Flash Systems and Storwize in SPP

SPP should be able to benefit from IBM Storage Snapshots (Flash Copy) during backup by using them to minimize the impact of the backup on the system to be backed up and, if necessary, to accelerate the backup process.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family 3 Planned for future release