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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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Support for OTP or MFA

Ransomware is a hot topic and everyone need to secure there Backup environment as much as possible. We need to find as many features as possible to make a ransomware as hard as possible. By using multi factor authentication is one thing that could...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

followsymbolic option for windows

There is no option to back up a content of a linked (or junction) directory on Windows.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Omnipath network support by Elastic Storage Server 3500/6000 (now called IBM Storage Scale System 3500)

IDRIS is an Education and Research customer hosting on of the largest compute center in France for several research entities (CNRS, GENCI, ... : http://www.idris.fr/). They currently use a very large Spectrum Scale appliance configuration with Len...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Running jobs on an SLA consecutively

Spectrum Protect Plus allows us to run all jobs on a schedule. When replicating, copying or archiving a backup data we need to set a time to the job.But sometimes backups take more time than usual and in that case replication and/or copy job fails...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

SnapDiff API v2

As written in the NetApp KB, ISP is not able to use the SnapDiff API *v2*. https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Protection_and_Security/SnapDiff/When_performing_a_SnapDiff_incremental_backup_of_a_FlexGroup_volume%2C_Spectrum_Prote...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Support for ROCKY Linux

Client is requesting ROCKY Linux support for their client nodes.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

command to report version

This idea is specifically CLI related. Currently one has to run "lssystem | grep -i code_ " to get the code level running on IBM Storage Virtualize products. Most other products provide "version" or "ver" or some single word variation to report ve...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration