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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 2965

Backups whitout vmware quiescing

If a problem whitin a vm exist and quiescing does not work, it would be good to be able to do an crash consistent backup.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SVC Global Mirror with Change Volumes. Force a remote sync cycle on demand.

Need a way to achieve an "application consistent" remote sync point on demand, without the need to pause the application for a full cycle period. Need to pause the application for 5 seconds or less. That is, need GMCV to perform like Traditional G...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Image backup of Oracle ASM

Customer is interested in doing raw backup of Oracle ASM disk. Currenty is only supported via TDP For Databases or via FlashCopy Manager. This is only valid like logical backup but our customer wants to know if it is possible to save the volumes w...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

support larger blocksizes for virtual volumes

AUDIT VOLUME and RESTORE VOLUME performancefor virtual volumes (VV) is much lower than write performancefor VV. The difference of performance is measured not in percentor tens of percent but in factors like tens. For example fromPMR48910,077 we ge...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments Server Backup Sets

Requesting the ability for TSM4VE to be able to create group listings of servers to do backups and restores. Basically the ability to say that if we want to restore an application enviornment which spans multiple servers, we can restore that set o...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Provide support in FlashCopy Manager for refresh from pureScale to non-pureScale DB2

IBM FlashCopy manager needs to support new DB2 (10.5) function that allows pureScale-based DB2 systems to be restored to a non-pureScale-based system. Prior to 10.5, this was not possible, but now, based on an OFFLINE backup, it is possible to res...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add filtervalue parm to catauditlog

The catauditlog has no filter value parm.... can we please add one.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Record TSM Backupset Tape utilization in the backupsets table

At present the only way to obtain the tape utilization of a backupset is to look for the backupset completion message. once this rolls off the activity log it is not possible to get this information. I propose that an additional column is added to...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SVC Upgrade test utility

Please enhance the upgradetest utility to display if a BIOS/BMC upgrade will be needed.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Export node. Option to only export active files

We want the option to export only Active files not Active-deleted files as well when running export node.Today when run export node with filedata=backupactive both Active files and the last Active file know to the tsm database (both active and ina...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.