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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    Logging of details for files deleted by dsmc delete on Spectrum Protect client

    If on a client node an administrator deletes files using the dsmc delete arch or dsmc delete back there is no detailed logging of the deleted files neither on the ISP server nor on the ISP client. You only have the number of deleted files in the a...
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Future consideration

    IBM SP Protect server support on w2k19

    I have to install a new IBM Sectrum protect server.I wish to use the OS Windows 2019 Server but I've seen that IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.9 is not supported on this version.I really wish to use this version of OS (Windows 2019) is possible to know w...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

    Support of UEFI Boot Mode for VMs

    Lack of Support - IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS VDS IBM Storage Support for Microsoft VSS VDS does only recognize a VMware VM as a VM when this VM was booted in BIOS-Mode. A VM booted in UEFI-Mode will not recognized as a VM.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SVC 2145-DH8 Use IMM port for remote access/control

    SVC Nodes are commonly installed in multiple Data Centers, not all Data Centers have a support personnel at all times, and in certain circumstances the SVC Nodes require physical access in order to Reboot the Nodes. Currently the IMM Port of the S...
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Enable wildcards on storage pools and node names on DEDUPSTATS commands

    Enable usage of wildcards and/or nodegroups on storage pools and node names on the commands: GENERATE DEDUPSTATSDELETE DEDUPSTATSQUERY DEDUPSTATS
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

    need tape disaster recovery ability for Spectrum Protect Plus

    Enable Spectrum Protect to be a disaster recovery target for Spectrum Protect Plus.This would provide tape based disaster recovery of Spectrum Protect Plus.
    about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

    Adaptive inhibit reclaim schedule

    The inhibit reclaim schedule today is static. When workload is increasing or shifting over time, reclamation might occur, when physical tape drives would be better used for premigration tasks. An adaptive reclamation algorithm taking workload into...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Make it possible to bypass tsm admin config on TSM4VE Web Interface

    It should be possible to "bypass" the TSM Server credentials configuation in the TSM4VE Web interface.Once the configuration has been "bypassed", TSM4VE should never ask for it again.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    Replicate VSNAP SQL log backups

    A job of type "Replication" was triggered and ended with failed status: "CTGGA0289 Skipping volume spp_1056_2111_1719AE68699 because there are no new snapshots since last backup". However, the job replicated the snapshot volume that stores the SQL...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Support https natively on S3 objects in protocol nodes

    This RFE is opened in behalf of General Motors. Vendors are required to support secure http i.e https for Object Store as one of the protocols provided in Spectrum Scale protocol nodes. Currently the product does not support https.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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