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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Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly

Spectrum Protect Plus Ad hoc snapshot which is generated from daily backup for weekly / monthly / Yearly Currently we need to create new SLA for create additional weekly / monthly / yearly which need additional backup windows time and additional s...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

RPO Monitoring by using the CSM status

The RPO is monitoring in a CSM Global Mirror session by using RPO alerts, according to warning and severe level thresholds. When RPO warning level is reached an IWNR2751W message will be seen in the CSM console log, and when RPO severe level is re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Not under consideration

Show Unprotected VM detail from Protection Summary

The Protection Summary section of the Policy Overview page shows protected and unprotected Virtual Machines. However I would expect to be able to click on the 'Unprotected' icon, for example, and get a list of unprotected VM's, but this is not the...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

User unable to query fileset if permissions are root as owner and user as group

It is not unusual for user directories permissions to be set where root is the owner and the user is the group for operational reasons. However this leads to the situation where user have a degraded level of service as they cannot query their file...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Support for TLS on SMTP servers (Office 365)

If a customer using office365, mails from SPP using office 365 can't be sent, because TLS SMTP is not supported.Support for TSL SMTP is needed.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Is a defect

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SPP UI
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Add a link to the RFE (Request For Enhancements) community in the SP OC UI

Have a link from SP OC to the RFE community
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Encryption of Server2Server Volumes

We'd like to get a possibility to use encryption on any device class protected by the current IBM Spectrum Protect Instance. Especially using server2server virtual volumes on another IBM Spectrum Protect Server, needs the data stored on the target...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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