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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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SP4C - Backing up Google Meet recordings & logs

The customer is considering SP4C to manage backups of Google Meet recordings and logs as part of their information governance strategy. As Meet recordings are typically stored in the organizer's Google Drive, the customer intends to utilize SP4C a...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

TS7700 - Aligned cryptographic support for TLS

Regardless of the interface I'm using on TS7700 or TSSC, the TLS support must be the same on all interfaces like HTTPS and RYSLOG. All of them must be kept in synch and up to date (which is nowadays TLS1.3). Currently there is a mixture of possibl...
6 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

SP4C - Enhancement to the SP4C Exchange Online restore tab to match with the Microsoft 365/Outlook user experience

In the Exchange Online restore tab using Calendar Mode, the SP4C tool currently displays only the "Name" column when viewing user mailbox contents (Inbox, Archive, Calendar, etc.). The client desires an enhanced user experience within the SP4C res...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Under review

Spectrum Protect Plus file level backup/recovery for physical servers

ISPP needs a feature for backup/restore of files/filesystems for physical servers similar to the feature set of a IBM Spectrum Protect BA client
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Fusion Data Foundation as a Service on ROSA

There are many OpenShift use cases on ROSA. If we can provide Fusion Data Foundation (FDF) as a Service on ROSA, that will be useful solution for those cloud users. Such a cloud user usually don't want to install Software by themselves, they basic...
about 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Under review

Support for RHEL9 for Storage Protect Server

RHEL 8 is more than 5 years old. RHEL 9 was already released more than 2 years ago (was officially released on May 17, 2022), It would be a good idea to add it as Operating System for Storage Protect Server.
8 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Operation Center must have the capability to fully administrate and configure a Spectrum Protect Server

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center has developed into a very useful tool. Due to its clear structure and well thought-out functions, it is becoming increasingly popular, especially with new Spectrum Protect customers. To complete the picture o...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Support RHEL as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server

Now, it is only supported SLES 15.4 as OS for Storage Sentinel SCAN server. But, my client and many customers in the world are using RHEL(x86_64) as OS for IA-Linux environment. Providing additional SLES, not RHEL is an unacceptable requirement fo...
about 1 year ago in Storage Defender 2

Allow MONITOR role to 'view' all (or most) items and configurations in CSM

Currently the MONITOR role in CSM does not allow access to things like port pairing csv or authentication settings and even the scheduled tasks. As a result we always need an ID with ADMINISTRATIVE access. Per our firm's security standards the adm...
about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Improve the CSM behaviour to find free session IDs on the hardware

At the moment CSM only checks the GM masters running on the Ds8000 and their state. It is not checked which LSS sessions are configured but are not members of a running Global Mirror. In situations where the DS8k hardware is managed by different t...
7 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration