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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Exchange 2010 Single Item Recovery from the Exchange mailbox database

We are using Spectrum Protect Server: Spectrum Protect Server EE Version 7.1.8.1 OS Version Windows 2012 R2 Standard Exchange Server / Client Side: BA Client Version 7.1.1 FlashCopy Manager for Exchange Version: 4.1.1.0 TDP for Mail Version 7.1.1 ...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Allow for import of Wildcard Certificate on FS5200 for securing WebUI

Currently on the FS5200, you have to create a certificate request and then upload the certificate generated from the request in order to secure the WebUI on the FS5200. We use Wildcard Certificates so that we don't have to order a new cert for eac...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Mobile usability for SI

Unlike Spectrum Control, which requires access to a corporate network, presumably through either a VPN or a physical (wired or wireless), it is possible to access SI anywhere. The app appears to be responsive (sizing correctly when viewed on a pho...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1

TSM Auto-Deploy/OC and roadmap for ability to Custom Install Package

We are looking for the ability to add a custom installable component like "TSM Web Client" to an auto-deploy upgrade.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Excluding virtual mount points from backups

Need option to exclude the virtual mount points from backups
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

TDP for SQL Integration with CDC for SQL

How to make it possible to create a custom script in IBM Spectrum Protect SQLServer to run every 8 hours and perform backup and erase logs only from the last 4 hours, keeping 4 hours of logs on the SQLServer disk. We have a use case where two IBM ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

Add Spectrum Visualize internode cluster traffic to Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

There isn't a way in SC or SI to monitor this performance.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add a VM replication module (for BCP/BRP/DRP)

this new module would copy x vms towards another Vcenter. instead of configuring a copy towards a vsnap and define severals versions (retention), this new feature would copy vms toward another ESX, datastore (on another vcenter) with a SLA with re...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

add "estimated time to full" on the reports

The on prem version of Storage Insights has the ability to have a column with "estimated time to full", which is important to our environment, this is not available on the cloud version of the software.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists