IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Create, modify & remove administative schedules

    Create, modify & remove administative schedules from the Operation Center.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

    Allow a single SPP server instance to backup/restore more than 2 billion files

    This RFE is to remove the current limitation of ~2 billion files to be indexed for backup and restore operations on a single SPP server.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    SPP: Filter for job type in job history

    It would be desirable to filter by "job type" in the job history window.For example: only filter for backup or replication jobs.This could be solved by just using a dropdown menu. Currently only a search for the job name is possible - unfortunatel...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Emergency/recovery encryption key generation for External Disk Encryption with TS7700

    On DS8K there is an option for creating an emergency/Recovery Key on a USB stick - a final resort in case the GKLM setup is fully damaged. Such 'final backdoor option' is not existing for TS7700. We absolutely need same functionality for the TS7700.
    about 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Option to keep main menu to the left open when clicking on a sub-option

    I often move between different menus in GUI and I find it time-consuming and irritating that the menu is closed every time I click on a sub-option. I've tried both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox to see if different browsers behaved differently,...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

    Spectrum Protect Plus: Improvement suggestion for the Restore-OpenShift function "Restore to alternate cluster"

    System: IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Server Spectrum Protect Plus is used to secure the various OpenShift clusters. In the event of a disaster recovery, it is a common scenario that the saved status of the defective cluster has to be transferred to a...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    vSnap implement HA feature - automated failover

    Implement an automated failover for vSnap component:When having multiple vSnaps in one Site and one vSnap fails, the other vSnaps won't automatically stand in and pick up the backup jobs. This causes a service outage which is not acceptable. Of co...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

    We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Add backup storage reporting on TSM Policy Domain level to TSM Operation Center

    Enhancing TSM Operation Center with of view of backup storage per Policy Domain. This would allow backup administrators to understand better their storage growth based on their organizational structure. Furthermore it supports the usage of TSM Pol...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

    CAS GPU Server to support H200 GPU card

    Allow customer to customize the GPU card with H200 in addition to RTX Pro 6000. Allow customer to use the GPU server to build custom AI Data Platform such as generic K8s platform with GPU card for generic AI training and inferencing workload.
    4 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

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