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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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SPP - Support for Centrify dzdo where sudo is called

Spectrum Protect Plus has a requirement for the Linux sudo command to be present for installation and configuration tasks. My customer has a security requirement where sudo commands are not allowed. Customer uses Centrify dzdo to provide the eleva...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Working OOtB Spectrum Protect Client for Ubuntu

System: SpectrumProtect Client for Ubuntu Linux.Actor: System administrator requesting to share some improvements with the world. Solution:-----------If IBM's .deb packages would1. use more features that the .deb format offers,2. be downloadable f...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

TDP MS Exchange restore performance issue

"After the talk with development, we could change our incremental restore logic. At restore time, we know which backups we need to restore. We could cache it if it's all in the same restore command. This would be a pretty big re-write, but we thin...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Enable Case Sensitivity in SMB Protocol

Externalize Samba Option on mmsmb to enable Case sensitivity for customer.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Allow multi-threaded backups/archive/expire via FileList methodology

Currently, we lose any multi-threading when we use the FileList parameter. The request is to allow multiple files to be specified, which can be handled by multiple threads (up to a specific maximum, when would then process the files in order but s...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Audit library checkl=barcode should be possible even if tapes are mounted

Audit library checklabel=barcode should be possible without dismounting all tape-drives.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

CSM to include text of event in email subject for email notifications

It would be very helpful if the email notifications from CSM could include not just the event code, but the text of the event in the email subject.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Remote Console - SVC

It is possible to have remote console access to the SVC engine - where there are remote sites, to be able to review if there is an issue during upgrade, or view boot process.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow tape drive to be part of more than one logical library

I would like to have the possibility to assign one tape drive in a TS4300 to more than one logical library. Most tape libraries currently are not over-utilized, meaning there are a lot free time slots where drives are not in use. Having multiple (...
about 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration