IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux

    We need us to implement Backup/Restore Spectrum Protect for Databases SQL in Linux Servers
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Future consideration

    Include SNMPD in appliance

    Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    dsmadmc login prompt when using MFA

    When logging in to dsmadmc having MFA activated on the account you do not get any indication on the password prompt that this is active. Suggestion either have a message that you need to enter password plus mfa code Or Rather Present the mfa passw...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Reorg of the container files

    Because we must delete 800.000.000 million orphaned chucks on two TSM servers there is coming many free storage in the container files but all the filesystems are 97% filled. If we can do a reorg then the filesystems can we schrink.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    Allow change Fusion HCI hostnames and rack units (rack-less option)

    Currently, Fusion HCI uses hostnames that appear to be fixed and cannot be modified. It would be beneficial to allow customers to change these hostnames to align with their own naming conventions.Additionally, the default hostnames include the rac...
    9 months ago in Storage Fusion 3 Planned for future release

    Additional SPP Support for Oracle XE Version

    Backup by SPP not possible for Oracle XE: Oracle Database 18c Express Edition Release 18.0.0.0.0
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance physical Volume Pooling for virtual Volume Pools

    as an additional Point for the Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TS77-I-209 it would be useful if we can decide which virtual volume Pool (Application Data) is written to which physical Volume. So we can get a chain from the z/OS Applciation Data ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

    The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

    Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

    There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Enable Storage Protect backup archive client testflag SKIPDATEMISMATCHWARNING for restore and retrieve

    In a replication failover scenario, the Storage Protect backup/ archive client is comparing the local stored last backup/ archive date with the date stored on the Storage Protect server. If the local date is older than the date stored on the Stora...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Under review

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