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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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Add monthly projections to the IBM Storage Protect (TSM) sizer tool

The IBM Storage Protect Sizer tool does not provide monthly projections...only yearly projections. We would like the IBM Storage Protect Sizing tool to be enhanced to also give monthly projections. This is particularly of interest to plan deliver ...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

Tape 7700 CUIR Function Enhancement - Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode

First: What is it? Vary one device Online for testing purpose while the Cluster in Service Mode using CUIR Function before bring the Cluster back to Online mode using GUI. At Now, we bring the Cluster in Service Prep, then finish what need to be d...
11 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to restore drives over original location

Customer would like to have the option to restore a drive directly over the original drive. Currently the only option is to restore the drive and have it mounted along side the original drive.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Externalise Achive to tape backup

Hello, I dont know why you have created an archive to tape solution without any possibility to externalise the tapes. We really need this option fefore we are going to another solution. Regards, Nabil AMER
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Exclude VMs from Sources Protected number.

If I tag a VM with something like ‘no_backup' or just don't include it in an SLA it is still counted in the total number of VMs protected. There are some VMs (desktops, Citrix, Web, etc) where you may have a single configuration server and then ma...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo SSl / TLS

Spectrum Protect Plus Mongo client agent does not have support for SSL or TLS security keys. Please add SSL /TLS security function to the Mongo agent.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

NVMeoF vVol Protocol Endpoints support is missing.

As of now (8.6.3.0) there is only support for SCSI PE's in a VMware/vVol environment. So, VMFS volumes work fine with End-to-End NVMeoF from host to storage, vVol does not.To use vVols (which is a perfect match with NVMeoF) i need to create duplic...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

SPP monthly storage & billling report

Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

Spectrum Copy Data Management needs to support AIX LVM volume Mirroring for HA (2 separate storage devices for each mirror)

Any user of AIX with HA/LVM Mirrors will benefit. Not every AIX system can be brought up to current code and FlashCopy Manager no longer supports aix 6. I have an SAP/Oracle System with HA across 2 sites/SVC clusters. An LVM mirror is in each site...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Secondary control for Adminstraive schedule jobs

This is a basic request. When a administrator leaves the company or change of project, per process the respective admin ID should be deleted from Spectrum Protect ( remove admin ). However the "remove admin" command just process the deletion reque...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration