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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    Protect Stgpool target to cloud container

    We need protect stgpool to work with cloud containers as a target pool.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

    During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Create BVIR copy queue report

    We have a VTS Grid leveraged across many z/OS mainframe clients and some of those clients have an SLA on tape replication to our DR site. We need to prove to these clients that at all times their tapes are being copied to the DR site in under 2 ho...
    over 7 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    SPVE vCenter Backup Failure resolution

    We are using SPVE to backup vCenter appliances. We frequently get timeout errors when creating snapshot. Would like some facility to resolve this issue, possibly an option to extend the timeout value.
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Manual Installation SPP Plus Client

    File System Inventory Failing to complete over the WAN. According to support this could due the low network bandwidth between the SPP Server and the remote client. I ask a procedure to manually install the client on the remote server and Support a...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Cross platform migration: Linux x86 to AIX

    Allow TSM to restore its database from a Linux x86 server to an AIX server.
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    SPP monthly storage & billling report

    Report to customer how the allocated SPP storage is used in order to know the space used by each backup nodes.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Planned for future release

    Require an option to update IBM Spectrum Control authentication ID from local / Domain ID to a Domain service ID ( Non Interactive)

    We need to have a local user ID (with non expiring and no special character password) to install DB2 and SC. However as per the customer security guidelines we (Infra Support) no longer have rights to use or create local user ID on the Customer Ma...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Submitted

    Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

    The embedded DSCLI should support the key management commands.
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    HTTP banner in DSMCAD Spectrum Protect client

    When scanning open ports of servers, the port 1581 (default, or configured by "httpport" in dsm.opt) answers with the string "Server: TSM_HTTP/0.1".This might be a security issue, as an attacker could see, which software is (TSM / Spectrum Protect...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

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