Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Storage Protect Family

Showing 3027 of 5496

Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

ODBC Enhancements for TSM 6.3

To enable access to data from the TSM Database, TSM until Version 5 enabledODBC using a TSM administrative user with limited authority. Since TSM6,ODBC is via the DB2 ODBC connect.The TSM ODBC connect documentation only describes TSM ODBC access u...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Add a administrative socket to the SP server

Add a administrative socket to the dsmserv process, or a alternative way to send commands to the running process at the local system.Using the the dsmadmc is relay hard for scripting and always needs password to be specified.A socket is simple to ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

TSM instance incompatibility with git in IBM's Linux Toolbox

The problem appears to be that when login to the tsm instance account, which includes this in the ~/.profile file: # The following three lines have been added by IBM DB2 instance utilities. if [ -f /tsm/sqllib/db2profile ]; then . /tsm/sqllib/db2p...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP micro version

We are an IBM business partner and have small and large scale customers.Spectrum Protect Plus is set for 48 GB 1000 VMs with minimum ram requirement, but we also have many customers with 50 -100 VMs.These customers think 48 GB is too much for ram ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>

When running tsm command:Q SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>The output can be a numbers of sessions.Therefore it would be great to cancel all sessions in one command:CAN SE CLIENTNAME=<NODE_NAME>
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Copy Data management duplicate job option

Customer would like the ability in the jobs tab.The ability to right click a job and to duplicate.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

TSM for VE - DP for VMware - Tag support

The ability to exlude or include VMs based on tags, or take tags into consideration somehow. Regardless of what cluster they live in, look at tags to determine what to do.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Improvements to Client Update targeting in Operations Center

The new automatic client updates built into Spectrum Protect Operations Center (OC) 8.1.3 does not currently support targeting of supported versions, nor filtering by OS version in order to do so manually. There are two improvements I would like t...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery

SP4VE Vmware: Duplicate UUIDs support for UI / File level recovery for linux mountproxies
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration