IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Storage Agent write to cloud container

Would be very useful to allow a storage agent to write directly to an on-prem or off-site cloud bucket. In larger environment this would help spread the load and improve backup performance. Then allow the Storage agent to read from on-prem S3 and ...
9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Support for MS Sharepoint

Support for the protect of Microsoft Sharepoint environments on-premis. File-level recovery.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Support for ROCKY Linux

Client is requesting ROCKY Linux support for their client nodes.
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

command to report version

This idea is specifically CLI related. Currently one has to run "lssystem | grep -i code_ " to get the code level running on IBM Storage Virtualize products. Most other products provide "version" or "ver" or some single word variation to report ve...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Storage Scale - Safe-guarded snapshots - allow expiration - give client to set its own expiration parameter in the GUI snapshot rule

By setting the "Allow Expiration" for snapshot rules under the GUI, it sets the snapshot only until the next execution, not for the whole retention, neither allows to client to sets its own retention. Based on the IBM Documentation "https://www.ib...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Support for AWS Private Link and VPC

Allows for us to follow our personal best practices with sending the data over a VPN to our AWS tenant. We have a URL that we would like to put in for the communication which will resolve to our private IP. It looks maybe like you used to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Planned for future release

Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow multiple or all SQL DBs selection in adhoc backup

Customer is requesting the ability to choose multiple DBs or all DBs for SQL Protection when running an adhoc backup via the SPP UI.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Convert a root fileset to an independent fileset

With AFM working only with independent filesets and not with root fileset, a customer that is hosting some data that needs to be replicated on its root fileset and that needs to transition to AFM will need to migrate (copy/move) all the data on th...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

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