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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    Directory container pools wasting space because of missing reclamation

    We need of some kind of reclamation or defragmentation process for containers in directory-container storage pools, because thousands of nearly empty containers waste space in the filesystem. So despite deduplication, much more space is used than ...
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Backing up and Restoring VMs that have independant disks allocated to them

    Short notes:TSM for VE will backup and restore and VM with zero dependent disks. The data will not be on the disks, but the VM will backup and restore with the disks in place. SPP simply fails the job if there are no dependent disks. TSM for VE wi...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Additional information/option for query session command

    Adding tcp_name (DNS) and/or ip address to query session command (extending sessions table). Add an option to query node to provide specific node name like "query session node=XYZ" to find out a node is currently accessing the server.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Hyperswap - estimator showing time running with failed communication

    It would be nice to have command showing estimated time based on current and historical data transfer for which communication between sites can be broken till free space would be exhaused.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Support AWS PrivateLink for S3 bucket in Spectrum Protect

    We use AWS PrivateLink, which allows AWS customers to send data to S3 over a site-to-site VPN and their VPC, instead of going over the public internet. AWS PrivateLink works by giving customers a personalized DNS address, which can be used to acce...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    TS7700 Feature License should be exportable

    The TS7700 feature licenses panel does not allow exporting of the list. We had a discrepancy between what we had purchased and the codes that had been installed. It was difficult to match those up without an export action on the panel when there a...
    over 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect backup of massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog on linux

    From the customer: I found five RedHat-based Linux clients that were ultimately waiting for tape mounts because they were trying to back up the massive sparse file /var/log/lastlog. This file reports as being 480GB in size, even though it is actua...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Support for proxy for Spectrum Control

    Support SC (Spectrum Control) work thru Proxy. Lot of times i
    over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review

    SPP| exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup

    In SPP for VM snapshot base backup, exclude single folder from VM snapshot backup. End user want to exclude there application/DB folder (one/more than one folder or particular extension for file like .mdf,.ldf)
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

    E-mail-based callhome in Spectrum Scale

    the customer deployed different IBM storages. in A9000 like storage, it provides the email-based callhome. When the call home detects some potential issues, it will collect some data, send the data to one email address from IBM and the proper supp...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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