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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    Ability to name backup

    Customer needs the ability to specify the name of backup jobs.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

    Mount retention for sequential file volumes

    Currently, mount retention is disable for sequential file device classes. In many cases in real-world use, this can cause a storm of mount/unmount operations if any migration, reclamation, backup, or restore processes rapidly cycle between a handf...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    PKIX Validation.

    When replacing the IBM Spectrum Protect Instance Self-signed certificate, with a CA signed certificate, the client to server or server to server validation of the CA signed certificate expects that the OID in the certificate chain must be an exact...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    AWS PrivateLink Endpoint support for S3

    It is desired to use an AWS PrivateLink endpoint to access AWS S3 as an object storage provider to Spectrum Protect Plus, with AWS S3 region support. To do this, it must be possible to register AWS S3 to Spectrum Protect Plus by specifying an arbi...
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Consider automatic column width in tables based on actual data

    When a tabular data is first viewed within Spectrum Control, Sometimes the column is much too narrow to display the actual data and sometimes many columns are too narrow and time must be invested adjusting the column widths to make the data readab...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

    Have Spectrum Protect Plus integrate with Automated Ticket System

    The customer has a desire for the alert system to interface with the Automated Ticketing System. This would allow that system to assign and notify individuals to respond to incidents on SPP
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    VM Restore Types - Change Naming

    Change the VM restore naming types – They are confusing mostly because test creates an active clone and clone doesnt! In my opinion Test should be renamed Instant Access (can still create an active clone that you can move into production or cleanu...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

    Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups

    Enable support for Tags and Folders in Resource Groups
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Proactive alerting

    Proactive alerts setup to alert when CPU, memory, configuration catalog, recovery catalog and file catalog are reaching 75%+ to flag more resources will be required shortly.
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Hyperswap with FS9200 : prefered site selection with GUI 8.4, as it was possible with GUI 8.3

    When creatin an hyperswap volume in FS9200 GUI version 8.3, it was possible to select a prefered site; now, with GUI 8.4, it's no more possible.We request this possibility for hyperswap volumes to select in the GUI a prefered site to be implemente...
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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