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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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systemd init scripts with BA client on linux platforms

Given that all supported Linux platforms by the Tivoli Storage Manager B/A client have shifted to systemd init, provide both systemv and systemd startup scripts and either make a decision at install time or let users choose which method to use aft...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

AFM Replication to Cloud on HCI Systems based on scale

support hybrid deployments for HCI systems based on Scale ECE
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

Bind DNS out of date software version

Agency is required to update to the current stable versions of BIND DNS. Internet Systems Consortium no longer issues security updates for out-of-date versions of BIND DNS.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Future consideration

TSM for VE: Enhance Scheduling

Enhance the limitations of the ‚options=‘-Flag of TSM Schedules.Today: 512 Characters Limitation. Must be >= 2048 Characters to cover more than 30 VMs per schedule
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SPP: Multiple LDAP servers required

We are using SPP 10.1.13 for backup of VM machines of customers with some project manager requiring access and some customers (vm owners) to be able to start single file restore. Our customers requires to have more than one LDAP server authenticat...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TS7700 Flash Copy - Allow customers to Write to Flashed LVOLs - more like DS8K Flash Copy

DR Test RPQ- North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB) recently implemented a 2-way Tapeless Grid, Local primary Site (Raleigh, NC) replicating to Remote DR Site (IBM BCRS in Sterling Forest, NY). Prior to implementing the Tape Grid, NCFB sent physical ta...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

SQL Service User per SQL instance

We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM for Virtual Environment Linux file level restore improvement

Almost all customers and partners complains about the complexity and the difficulty to perform Linux file level recovery with TSM for Virtual Environment. They need a simplified recovery procedure (with or without i-SCSI) to access to a volume for...
about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Planned for future release

modify behavior of ldap authentication cache expiration

Currently ldap authentication cache expiration timeouts can be set via commandline:e.g.:chldap -authcacheminutes 60would set the authentication cache to be refreshed every hour. This is a fixed timer that starts to count when user logs in and woul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

RFE: Allow file system ?-n? attribute to be changed

When a Spectrum Scale file system is created, several parameters must be specified that can not be changed after the fact. One of these is the “-n” parameter giving an estimate of the number of systems that will be mounting a file system, directly...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration