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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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Add http/https proxy support to Spectrum Protect Server (cloud storage pools)

Spectrum Protect Server don't have the option to configure a http/https proxy to communicate to internet. When a cloud storage pool is configured, the server must to communicate with the cloud provider directly.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance

We need options to On-demand Backup of all SQL Database of the one instance.Currently we need to select one by one database to on-demand backup.Best way is to have the 2 options, select one database or all of an instance.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Additional Filter Option for Storage Insights under RC Relationships.

When creating a automated report within SI, the section under remote copy / Remote Copy Relationships, I need a filter option to show and report on only RC Relationships that is not part of any RC Groups. The aim of this report is to report on RC ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Display grace period of 30 minutes between 2 log collections in task failure message

When attempting to collect logs from a storage subsystem, a user can received the following message when the task fails: " Uploading system logs for system XXX to ticket TS0123456789. The log package for the device with serial number YYY for ticke...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Enhancment to Spectrum Scale DMAPI - dmapiEventTimeout code

The Spectrum Scale Data Management API for HSM integration has a configuration parameter dmapiEventTimeout with specific behaviour for NFS environments. However, this behaviour does not translate to other protocol scenarios such as AFM, SMB or Obj...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Backup of Microsoft Teams Chat transcripts in Protect Plus Office365

Working with a customer who is moving to Office 365 and needs a product to provide backups. As a Spectrum Protect customer today they looked at Protect Plus for Office 365, but the IBM solution lacks the capability to backup the Microsoft Teams "C...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP for Microsoft 365 : backup shared mailboxes

In the Microsoft Exchange Online (365) product, you have mailboxes linked to existing people (people with mail license) that you can backup.But, you also have "shared mailboxes" (Microsoft's term) that do not need mail license. However, I'd like t...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP original storage policy during restore instead of default policy

If a customer uses multiple storage policies and a restore is preformed, SPP assigns the default storage policy by default. The customer has to select the original storage policy manually, which can be easily forgotten during a restore.It would be...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

CSM triggered backup of logs -feature add

CSM should trigger automatic backup of logs to files in case of a critical event related to replication occurs. Reason to request this feature >CSM logs are getting overwritten in a very short period of time that critical events disappear from ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

e-mail notification when "Data collector interruption " is resolved

User can chose to receive a notification when "Data collector interruption for IBM Storage Insights" is resolved
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration