IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Add Nutanix Acropolis AHV as supported SPP Hypervisor

    Please add Nutanix Acropolis AHV hypervisor to the supported Spectrum Protect Plus hypervisors.
    about 8 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...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

    Retrules for databases and Exchange filespaces

    Ability to create long term / ad-hoc achives from already backed-up data is critical to our customers. We can not afford of re-reading the same data under different nodename to store it under different retention policy. There is a need for retenti...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Future consideration

    Interoperability with Sangfor virtualization

    Hi I have a customer here in PH already using FS 5300 and being used by sangfor. Now i’m proposing FS 5600. Attached to a sanfor virtualization. How come my fpq got rejected.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Allow larger than 256 KiB blocks while accessing tape devices

    As by TS009588298 we have performance issue while accessing tape drives, and using a larger block size (e. g. 2 Mebibytes instead of the now maximum 256 KiB) is improving performance a lot. This would even make it possible for us to backup the SP-...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

    Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Add ability in Data Management Service to perform most common Storage Protect actions

    Monitoring of Storage Protect is very basic in the current release. The product shows how many alerts on the Storage Protect server but not what they are. Operations Center is still 100% necessary for Storage Protect management. Would like to allo...
    almost 3 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Future consideration

    Allow customer to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level

    Allow customers to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level (admin, operator, etc) … The customer would like to adminstir the groups on th eDS8k exactly how it works in the Storage Manager GUI for the z/OS.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

    Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Allow longer names for flash copy related items.

    Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect when using FCM and SVC: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controlle...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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