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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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SP Client - Suppress interactive prompts

Hello, we do a lot of scripted restores and backups. We found that in a replicated environment under certain conditions a restore operation would for example prompt with "ANS2120W The last store operation date reported by the server .... does not ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Snapdiff-Accounts on NetApp SVMs

For SnapDiff usage on NetApp-clusters a cluster-level-user with suitable permissions is needed. NetApp file-services are provided by "storage virtual machines" (SVMs), which have it's own user management. We would prefer to use SVM-level-SnapDiff ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Raising iSER sessions to 1024 per node

PayPal/GoPay purchased some 9200s for a large VMware environment with iSER connectivity, and we hit the 256 session limitation per controller. We desperately need to increase the iSer sessions from 256 to 1024 per controller. The iSER cards are co...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow REPLICATE NODE against DECOMMissioned nodes

Customer would like to REPLICATE nodes that are in a DECOMMISIONED status. The reason is to have 2 or 3 copies of archived data, to be maintained for legal reasons for 10 years, currently stored in a dedup container. He wants to create a new repli...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Automate Kubernetes Integration (Installation, Configuration & B/R)

Currently, integrating and configuring Kubernetes Backup (PVCs) is a manual and complex step. It has to be done manually in the K8s cluster and requires a large bunch of preparations and various commands to be executed to get it integrated. Additi...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Active Directory integration with TSM

Full Active Directory integration required as a single sign on solution
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protec for VE Change Last Backup Field in vCenter

When a VM Backup is done via vcenter after a complete Backup a Note will written to the machines guest note. There is no option to change a specific attribute in the "last backup" field. This would help my customer.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

youtube tv contact number customer services +1(833) 756-4415

YouTube TV is a popular streaming service that allows users to watch live TV and on-demand content. While the platform is known for its seamless user experience, there may be instances where you need to reach out to their customer support team for...
10 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
10 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 2 Not under consideration

Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration