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 Deleting Volumes to background processes when removing from DRP pool

    When we've deleted volumes from the GUI they had removed but when we went onto the cli it showed these as deleting, this would be useful to show in the background tasks as then we could have seen these were still being removed off the storage as t...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SAP HANA setup for multiple backup retentions (monthly, yearly and so on)

    When customers need multiple retentions for SAP HANA, they need to use the script provided by IBM to temporarily change to a new UTL, or point a single different stanza in HANAs cockpint, which could put monthly backups in jeopardy since they will...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Future consideration

    SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

    In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

    Safeguarded Copy: User defined Virtual Capacity target with automated or command driven multiplier adjustment

    Idea: Provide a user configurable virtual capacity used target for all volumes in a copy set (for example, 50%, 55%, or 60%). It would be optimal if the DS8K could automatically adjust the multiplier, UP or DOWN, for any volume that does not curre...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Data Retention should be able to delete Copy Storage Pool Volumes

    In Spectrum Protect Data Retention it is not possible to delete any data manually, which is the key functionality of the product.In case of duplicating the data stored (i.e. on tape) we use Copy Storage Pools. To allow an exchange of the underlyin...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Increase number of extents per cluster

    Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    File Level Restore Enhancements

    Requests from customer to improve the File Level Restore recovery capability in SPP and add the following: 1) Add an include list as well as an exclude list under VM options > select options 2) Collect data for and add a date modified field so ...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Segregate user account management function into a dedicated account and have the option to remove user account management from general privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor.

    Providing a user management only account and restricting user management from other privileged accounts such as Administrator or Supervisor. The aim it to segregate user account management role from that of general administrator role as part of se...
    6 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    SPP Allow Multiple IBM COS Accessors or Load Balancer for Offload to On-Prem IBM COS

    Customer needs the ability to configure the "Copy" portion of their SLA Policy to allow either a load balancer or multiple endpoints to be configured.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus native application-aware snapshot/recovery support of Google Cloud Platform VMs

    Support for SPP to snapshot/recover Google Cloud VMs via API (like VMware VM support). Need capability of installing both the SPP server and vSnap in GCP.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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