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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    Fusion B&R RBAC and self service backup and recoveries

    Customer is keen to use the self-service backup/restore to allow the app admins (admin users of particular namespaces) define and run their backup/restore jobs themselves. Currently the self-service backup/restore job definitions and job runs are ...
    11 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Future consideration

    Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

    Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Select background colour in GUI

    When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

    The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

    Incremental Hyper-V Backup Like TDP for VE (VMware)

    Please add the ability to perform incremental backups for Hyper-V using either the standard TSM BA Client or TSM for VE in a similar way as is provided for VMware backups.
    over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Planned for future release

    SPP two-factor authentication

    Due to several cyber attacks to many companies. Some SPP clients are requiring a two-factor authentication. Overall in SPP WEB UI and SPP WEB admin UI.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Improve the security for S3 buckets & SPP including support for SAML authentication.

    Currently many tools that implement SSO (Single Sign-on) allow the use of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) technology to raise the level of security and automate authentication with various tools. SAML is a standardized way of telling ext...
    almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Launch CLI from GUI

    I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    lin_tape driver for Ubuntu is outdated, any plans to update in the near future?

    lin_tape driver is needed for all IBM LTO tape drives and libraries. We have applications running on Ubuntu and need a current version of the driver. With the current version we are stuck to Ubuntu 20.04 and can't move forward.
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    Support of CentOS for SPfVE as Datamover

    Due to licensing issues, we would like to use CentOS as the operating system. Unfortunately we could not find the support in the support matrix.After consultation with the support I was informed that this support is unfortunately not considered.Si...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

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