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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Storage Protect Family

Showing 2985

Update vSnaps over SPP GUI / Dashboard

We would like to be able to update one or more vSnaps through the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI / Dashboard.Currently we have to update the vSnaps manually via the cli on the vSnap server itself.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

Server Cross-replication with Client Acceptors to both on all clients

Site fail-over/fail-back of the "restore" function (read from ISP server(s)) is already provided in the ISP server product. Site fail-over/fail-back of the "backup" function (write to ISP server) is not. If site A goes down, backups must be suspen...
3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting SAP HANA

Spectrum Protect Plus supporting backup and recovery of SAP HANA.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Node Replication for NDMP Node

Node Replication for NDMP Node feature in not available in Spectrum Protect Server
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

encrypted standard/archive copy to S3 like SP

If I want to save the data securely in the cloud - without extra encryption of the buckets by S3 Provider, then the vSnap encryption on the VSnap doesn’t help either. The bucket file is always stored unencrypted. We would like to implement a func...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support nested groups from Active Directory

Currently SPP does not supported nested Active Directory groups.Only direct group members are able to login. With a "nested" group member - so a member of a group under the added group doesn't work.Here's what I mean: Group 1 (added to SPP) <- ...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

ISPP support multiple networks for VSNAP and ESXi hosts

We have a admin LAN and a Backup Lan, it is currently not possible however to control which Network is used for the different dataflows.1) ESXi servers can have multiple interfaces however ISPP always uses the ESX management lan for restore/nfs mo...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Provide a replication status in the dashboard to verify vSnap replication is in sync/running etc.

A status view is required to identify if vSnap replication is in sync / running / out-of-sync similar to the replication status view in the Operation Center for Spectrum Protect replication.
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.