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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    Achive/Retrieve/Backup operations on ISP v8.1 webclient

    We need retrieve operations for webclient. Our pilot teams retrieve lots of files everydays. They are no administrator and they must choose files in the long list of everyday archives files. Our customers regulary ask some files. Pilot team are no...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Specify Management Class for Hyper-V Backup

    When backing up hyper-v virtual machines, we should able to specify target management class like a VMMC option at vmware backups.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

    Domnode support for new Webclient GUI

    The old webclient supported option domnode to be able to restore/activate Domino databases without logging into the target machine (help deskmodel). The domnode functionality is missing in the new security enabled Webclient (WEBGUI).
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Need to protect AWS RDS databases

    whilst SP/SPP support native SQL databases, they do not support AWS RDS SQL. As users start to move more workloads to AWS, they need to continue protecting the data. Failure to provide this functionality within SP/SPP will make users look elsewher...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    enhance for multi-session retrieve functionality

    Multi-sessions is not enchanced in retrieve operations while it is for restore operations
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    System managed throttles

    Volumes throttling is managed at a canister/node level such that a throttle for a volume or server is the sum of what both canisters can deliver. If a canister were to fail the throttle can only deliver 50% of the original value. The throttle shou...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    EXCLUDE.DIR Command for archive operations

    My client is trying to archive and doesn't want to archive an entire directory (including subdirectories) In backup operations, there is a command that is exclude.dir through which that directory is not included in the copy. We wanted to request t...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

    Allow smaller amount of servers to be deployed using the Cloud Satellite automation

    For Day 2 operations it is very important to be able to add single hosts to the Satellite environment and in the current interface you can only deploy a minimum of 6 hosts.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 1 Not under consideration

    Add application aware backup and restore for Guardiaum Insights application

    Client is running Guardium Insights in their OCP cluster, and are challenged with current data protection process, and need an enterprise level, automated application aware Backup & Restore solution for this environment.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Not under consideration

    BVIR maintenance integrated in zOS

    BVIR delivers very good Reports, but is maintained outside of zOS. The Tapetools have to be downloaded, unpacked, installed, the already used JCL has to be checked for changes. The TS7700 is maintained with PTFs instead, as it is usual in zOS.
    about 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

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