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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    SP PLUS support for SHAREPOINT witH SQL

    Customer would like to have an application support for SHAREPOINT environemnt, backing up the VM with SP PLUS.SHAREPOINT is used with SQL 2017 database.Not yet with O365.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Ability to create empty structures in S3 Object Client

    We would like to be able to create empty object structures in S3 buckets i.e.:aws s3api put-object --bucket test --key dir/myfolder I was told by support team, that this is currently a limitation to the MinIO used for the object agent.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Support for OTP or MFA

    Ransomware is a hot topic and everyone need to secure there Backup environment as much as possible. We need to find as many features as possible to make a ransomware as hard as possible. By using multi factor authentication is one thing that could...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

    SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus - Support of Oracle Database on Windows Server

    Ability to backup Oracle databases (11gR2+) running on Windows servers.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

    Please do not discontinue this support.
    almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    run the Fusion Data Catalog under podman

    This would allow more Scale customers that are entitled to Fusion Data Catalog Service to run it without additional infrastructure to run. Podman could run the Fusion Data Catalog service on a Scale System utility node. We would have more adoption...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    Snapshots on ChildPool

    today you can only create snapshot-policy which makes the snapshots on the same pool the volume is already on. and in our scenario we are using Child-Pool for snapshots to prevent risks of cyber attacks when snapshots are filling the primery pool ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Add VM Backup Success Rate to GUI

    The current "Success Rate" percentage shown in the GUI is misleading.It shows the success rate of jobs. Jobs include backup, restore, replication, inventory and maintenance jobs.If 1 job (with 5 VMs) fails and 1 job (with 500 VMs) succeeds, the su...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance High Availability

    Spectrum Protect Plus Appliance holds critical Data to backup and restore VMs. At present there is no way to make this Highly Available (HA) similar to Vsphere appliance. During normal operation we should be able to: Switch to secondary site and s...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

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