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 5543

Add missing return codes to dsmrc.h for Tivoli Storage Manager to assist customers in problem determination

Return codes such as 362 and 363 are not documented for example so PMRs must be opened for proper problem determination. More cost efficient for customers if documented at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGSG7_7.1.8/api/r_ret_code...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Test SnapDiff with NetApp Infinite Volumes in Cluster mode

We need to have SnapDiff tested in Infinite Volumes on NetApps cluster mode. We currently are using NetApps 7-mode, but are in the process of upgrading these appliances to cluter mode. NetApp documentation states third party SnapDiff works in Infi...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Planned for future release

Optional short notification for Spectrum Virtualize produts

The Spectrum Virtualize family of products produce a length alert email, which is suitable for consumption by support. However, customers may choose to send critical alerts to some form of paging device. These devices may not be able to display th...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

ISP Installer and GTK2/libXrender

If you have installed the GTK2 bundle (as described in the installation guide, ISP 8.1.12, AIX 7.2) and probably updated the RPMs to a more recent level (that is not the problem) then you run into this problem: GUI Installer/Instance Installer The...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

vdismirror state properties

GUI don't show the state of the copyprocess of any vdiskmirror.The lsvdisk shows the state of each copy as sync yes/no. GUI only states online (or offline).This information is important for SVC stretched cluster operations.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow Spectrum Protect web GUI to support SSL

After we upgraded SP from version 7.1 to 8.1.3 we lost the possibility to restore NAS filer via web GUI.We need to get back the feature to restore NAS filespaces via web GUI (or if you implement that the thick BA client can do the same operation)....
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Avoid HSM recalls into GPFS snapshots when files are deleted in the live FS

When a migrated file is part of a GPFS snapshot and the file is deleted, the Tivoli HSM client is sent a DMAPI event and recalls the file into the snapshot..This behaviour is undesired especially in SOBAR usage scenarios (see Use Case below).Inste...
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

Individual file backup/restore of system files in W2K8 and W2012

TSM 6.4 running on Windows 2008 R2 Standard. Effective with Windows Vista and higher (including Windows 2008), files that are identified as "System" files by Windows are automatically excluded from the filesystem backup. The files are backed up on...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Enable and disable LME

After LME has been configured, we need a method of temporarily stop new tapes from being encrypted, while still being able to read encrypted tapes.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

SSL Config for Spectrum Protect client

SSL Config is tied to TCPS name/ip, and this must match server certificate. A different method of validating the server certificate must be present. Possibilities in the dsm.opt may beSSLCheckFingerprint = FingerprintvalueSSLCheckCommonName=Server...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 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.