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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    Expire individual backups in Spectrum Protect Plus

    Expire individual host/application backups assigned to SLA policy
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Support for Azure Blob Storage Cold tier in TSM Server

    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage offers three online access tiers: Hot, Cool, and Cold.According to current documentation and support statements, the IBM TSM Server (Tivoli Storage Manager) currently supports only the Hot and Cool tiers. From a techni...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Create backupset from directory container stgpool

    Directory containers give much better performance compared to the "old" version of dedup, but it makes it impossible to create Backupsets (and export) which several of my customers are using to get an annual backup offsite
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Error message to provide specific detail of problem

    When Storage Archive is retrieving a file but the tapes where primary or any replica copies reside are offline the error message is non-descript and just says there is an error as opposed to error primary and replica files not available as tapes o...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Archive 0 Not under consideration

    Data Management Service: Clusters should show a warning on Summary dashboard when in a disconnected state

    DMS works much like Data Protect local console. It is very simple to use, but the health status can be misleading. Clusters should show a warning on Summary dashboard when in a disconnected state
    almost 3 years ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Planned for future release

    Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

    Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
    over 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

    SafeGuardCopy data offload with system migrate

    offload Spectrum Virtualize Safeguard copy volumes to another system to extend the retention period and avoid hitting system limits on vdisk and safeguard copy mappings.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    We need new "Storage Protect for Mail" version compatible with Domino 14.5 FP1

    It is a request for migrate Domino server from version 12.01 FP1 to version 14.5 FP1 version TDP for Mail (Domino) is our backup solution and we can´t migrate version because there isn´t a TDP version compatible/supported with Domino 14.5 FP1
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 4

    Every Half year require to recommanded the LTS version reports

    Currently, we have multiple FlashSystem storage models, including the FS5K, FS7K, and FS9K series. Recently, IBM has been frequently announcing new versions of the IBM Spectrum Virtualization firmware. While we plan to perform the firmware upgrade...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Please notify the IBM storage End of Availability (EOA) and End of Support (EOS) service dates through the Storage Insight Manager.

    Currently, we are managing multiple IBM storage systems of different models located at various sites. These devices were purchased from different business partners. Often, we are unaware of the exact EOA (End of Availability) and EOS (End of Suppo...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

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