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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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 Copy Data Management

    Ability to set an alternate directory for the creation of EPIC, iris.cpf file, within a properties file on the CDM server.

    This ability will help us make better use of the CDM product and avoid failing or long running jobs.
    9 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    CDM - VMware backup job - Whole datastore selected - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.

    Possibility to scan whole datastore - Sentinel scan does not execute when a datastore is selected as the source.
    7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Enhancing DCDM Error Logs with Standardized Error Codes

    In the current implementation of DCDM error logs often contain text messages that describe the issue. However, it is difficult to search for known issues or solutions without a standardized identifier. Also, it is difficult for support engineers t...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

    Functionality to Download Catalog Backup from IBM Defender Copy Data Management Admin Console.

    Currently, the IBM Defender Copy Data Management admin console lacks the functionality to download the catalog backup. In case the root/administrator passwords are not working, there is no facility to download the catalog backup from IBM Defender ...
    4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Registering Storage Virtualize Provider

    Currently in order to register (as Provider) a Storage Virtualize or Storage VIrtualize for Snapshot the CDM identity is based on name/password credentials. It would be preferred to have user/certificate as a more secure alternative.
    6 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Enable SMTP configuration to use SSL/TLS communication

    We recommend implementing SSL/TLS encryption for SMTP configuration to ensure secure, encrypted communication between clients and mail servers. This prevents plaintext transmission of authentication credentials and email content, mitigating risks ...
    5 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    SCDM GUI extension request (update of group marked jobs)

    It is not possible to set grouped BACKUP jobs as "Hold Schedule" and "Unhold Schedule". Same for grouped selections for Delete request.It is only possible to do this sequentially according to the selected individual jobs, which is incredibly time ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Restore snapshots to a different host.

    Restore snapshots to a different host to be able to do system copies.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Oracle on zLinux compatibility for IBM CDM

    A client currently uses IBM FlashSystem in a VMware environment and holds a license for IBM Copy Data Management (CDM). However, they plan to migrate their primary workloads to IBM LinuxONE and adopt Oracle on zLinux as part of their future archit...
    11 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    When registering an SQL server source (single instance or AAG) allow both an OS login account and SQL account to be specified.

    Within SQL server, you can allow authentication/authorization to be done via OS accounts (local or domain) OR only allow database tasks such as DBA roles be controlled by SQL Server accounts. Some organizations consider the latter to be more secur...
    11 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

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