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

All ideas

Showing 5527 of 5527

Enhance Spectrum Protect CMS feature

Starting 8.1.13 baclient / OC version, CMS is integrated with the baclient code. Right now, only part of the relevant baclient logs for investigations are being reported. It could be very helpful for “remote” diagnostics that the CMS is able to gr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Reporting, enhanced capabilities

Two items:Reporting in Operations Center by mail is limited to only simple mail. Sending reports is only possible hourly, daily or weekly.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 1 Not under consideration

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore

SPP to be aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restoreSPP is not currently aware of vSAN storage policy during VM backup/restore. VM(s) will be restored with the default vSAN storage policy, not the one specified in the source VM(s). It w...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Ability to name backup

Customer needs the ability to specify the name of backup jobs.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

Mount retention for sequential file volumes

Currently, mount retention is disable for sequential file device classes. In many cases in real-world use, this can cause a storm of mount/unmount operations if any migration, reclamation, backup, or restore processes rapidly cycle between a handf...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

pNFS Support

Support pNFS (specifically, multiple pNFS CES clusters for any given number of filesystems). There appears to be support for pNFS within the GPFS Ganesha FSAL but at present it's not documented, certainly not supported, and doesn't seem to work.
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

AWS PrivateLink Endpoint support for S3

It is desired to use an AWS PrivateLink endpoint to access AWS S3 as an object storage provider to Spectrum Protect Plus, with AWS S3 region support. To do this, it must be possible to register AWS S3 to Spectrum Protect Plus by specifying an arbi...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

TSM4VE backup schedule ends with RC=12 when there is no guest eligible for backup

Change the RC to 0 or 1 if no virtual guest is eligible for backup but the overall backup status is successful.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SAP HANA backup status reporting in Spectrum Protect OC

Spectrum Protect Operations Center does not report nor is aware if a Backup is successful or if it is failed. Instead a log is created on every server which we have to manually parse and reactively report a backup failure. This is an effort since ...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.