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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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Object Lock / Immutability with SP/P with Hitachi Cloud Scale

In alignment with our Cyber Resiliency sales play many of our clients are looking at ways to utilise the assets they already have purchased to "sure up" their infrastructure. We know data management solutions are a target of internal and external ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus User Experience Enhancements

User enhancement requests for Spectrum Protect Plus Make the dashboard interactive i.e. ability to drill down into the protection summary, the unprotected summary, failed jobs and running jobs. Make the dashboard customisable. All data accessible ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux

We need us to implement Backup/Restore Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux Servers
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

RENAME DEVCLASS

We have to rename some tape based DEVICE CLASSES for organizational reasons.Unfortunately, there is no RENAME DEVCLASS command defined. The DEVICE CLASSES mentioned have storage pools with large amounts of archive data (many PB)with expiration tim...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable individual throttling for Replication and Cloud copy jobs. Also add support for Internet Proxy for Cloud offloads.

We use IBM Spectrum Protect Plus offload (copy) to Cloud feature in addition to Replication (another copy) to a IBM Spectrum Protect (classic) repository server for a subsequent tape backup. Due to a huge volume of data already being backed up by ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Replicate retentionset and retention rules

I have found a pretty bad design flaw in the retentionset. We use replication to move data off old SP servers to new hardware (or between OS).If the source server have retentionsets, then the data is replicated to the target server but not the ret...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

An option to disable unmount mount for bulk selective recalls using multiple file lists from the same tape.

If you do bulk selective recalls, with multiple file lists coming from the same tape, storage archive unmounts the tape after finishing the list. After starting the new list, the same tape is mounted again. This causes massive delays mounting and ...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Future consideration

Protect STGPool type=local mounts tape before checking if data to be copied available

TSM Server protect STGPool mounts Carts without any payload.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Ability to view capacity info as z/OS reports it

Insights is great for viewing info (real time and historical) at the device / storage system level similar to the gui for the DS8K. However that is not the most useful info for day to day operations of these devices defined to z/OS. Insights does ...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration