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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Spectrum Virtualize FlashCopy bitmap with Spectrum Copy Data Management

When using Spectrum Virtualize in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management, if the flashcopy bitmap capacity fills, the Spectrum Virtualize instance will warmstart a node without warning. Spectrum Copy Data Management orchestrates the sc...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

tsmdlst for direct attached SCSI libraries/drives

Since ISP 8.1.1 the tsmdlst tool in only supporting HBA / SAN attached libraries and tape drives.Find explanation here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1&uid=swg1IT22703We are using several direct attached libraries and are pl...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SPP Support for IBM Informix

Customer requests support for Informix in SPP. Our Customer is interested in the reuse feature because this is important for their business.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Change warning message to information message

In TSM for VE 7.1 the warning message "ANS4063W" is triggering an RC 8 return code on the scheduled event. We would like the warning message changed to an information message instead.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Connect to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

Our customer wants Spectrum Protect to be able to connect to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key. Today other products are able to do it.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

SI Pro Software Update Recommendations to List Current/Minimum/Recommended levels in More Information field

In the Storage Insights Notifications there are new notifications for Software Update Recommendations. Under the More Information field no information is shown, but if the alert is opened up then it shows the Current/Minimum/Recommended Level in a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

TSM4VE UI does not support restore VMs multiple

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the parallel / multiple restore of VMs at a time. We are selected 4 VM's for the restoration only one process is started with VM restoration. After completing the 1st VM restoration 2nd VM proce...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

LTO9 drive relative humidity value

LTO9 drive reports snmpt-trap alerts if it's relative humidity value is out of range. This relative humidity value of LTO9 drive should be visible on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Support for CSM assimilating correctly a Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship onto an new CSM server

CSM should be able to assimilate correctly a complete Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship established and is in "Target Available state onto a new from scratch installed CSM server. Currently CSM is only able to assimilate th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

SnapDiff to tape

Add feature to make incremental/differential backups of Netapp volumes to tapes base on changed blocks. A New Backup Architecture for NAS Systems - SnapDiff V3 (netapp.com)
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Needs more information

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