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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    MS-SQL Support for Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1

    Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments V8.1 and Spectrum Protect for Databases V8.1 should support MS-SQL 2012.Customer has a large MS-SQL 2012 installation base running on VMware. Both products do not support a official supported version of MS...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Backup NAS Incremental

    We have a large backup NAS volume for daily backup.And this volumetry of data stored and transferred daily are enormous.Backups are Differential, we need a way to perform an incremental backup.We also need a solution to backup and restore at the s...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 4 Not under consideration

    SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

    Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Lustre allows 8182 users to be added to the ACL of a single file for R/W access, the latest Scale release (v5.5.2.x) only allows 1913 because a hidden ACL file is limited to 15KB.

    Users in large environments like Sanger (UK Biomedical research lab) can continue to implement their in-house user access policies resulting in $10 million dollar in sales for IBM. Assuming there are 4000 users created via script (useradd was used...
    12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Run enduser file level restore with restricted privileges

    Request to be able to run the end-user file level restore UI with restricted priviledges. Currently, per documentation a domain-admin UID is required to run the UI. It would be highly advisable to run the UI with the minimum privileges required fo...
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Provide More Granular DS8 Capacity Reporting for Storage Insights Hosts and Volumes

    Please provide the ability to capture capacity information for hosts and volumes at a more granular level, eg hourly/sample vs just a single daily entry. The array overall we can see capacity data at least to an hourly level, so this would allow u...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

    Ability to monitor Tape devices

    Customer would like the ability to monitor Tape devices in Storage Insights
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Performance tables to have a Totals row at bottom to sum the values

    On all of the performance tables, it would be nice to have a "Totals" row at bottom to sum the values of each column.
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    REST API - Quotas for Users and Groups

    Create a REST API to show User and Group quotas. Currently, the only quotas are Filesystems and Filesets - If users have a homedir set to a fileset you can get their quota, however if user or group quotas are set they cannot be retrieved.
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

    SPP should disable vSphere storage vMotion during backup

    If vSphere storage vMotion is performed during SPP VM backup there may be left orphaned VMDK files on datastores. This causes operational problems for customers
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

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