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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Storage Protect Family

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Use DB2 compression for TSM DB backup

Enhance the TSM server command "BACKUP DB" to allow for DB2 backup compression!
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

TSM for VE in AWS

Ability to run TSM for VE in AWS
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Cloud container Pool - Hybrid Pools

Store active copies of data in the disk "cache" or have control when data is moved to the cloud
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

LTO 6 Full Height drive support.

Currently TSM only supports LTO 6 Half Height drives. Need to support LTO 6 Full height drives, as a client has them in their tape library.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Tivoli Storage Manager Mac client support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra)

Add support for macOS 10.12 (Sierra) to the TSM Mac client.

How to stop Hyper-V from using the 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provider' to run VM snapshots.

We have backup server with windows 2012r2 and we install IBM SPECTRUM PROTECT SERVER 8.1.6 we have hyper-v 2012 r2 with 12 hosts with cluster , we install ibm spectrum protect for hyper-v 8.1.6 the backup work with 'Data ONTAP VSS Hardware Provide...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

VADP: Possibility to cleanup created VMware snapshots

Affected products/clients by this RFE:TSM B/A ClientTSM for VEFlashCopy Manager (for VMware) Our clients which work with the VADP are able to create and remove VMware-snapshots, but in case of a failed schedule for the allover environment, our cli...

Support for MS SQL 2016

We are starting to use MS SQL 2016.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Delivered

Support Database volumes on NFS

Even though using NFS is supported by DB2, it is not supported nor recommended for TSM. The following show the supported devices for DB2https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470193 The following shows TSM's supporthttps://www-304.ib...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

TSM incremental backups of Hyper V .vhd files

Currently, TSM can only perform FULL backups of Microsoft Hyper V VHD files. Most of the competition (Netbackup, Commvault, DPM) can perform Incremental Backups of these files. Can we implement Change Block Tracking/Incremental backups for Hyper V...
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Delivered