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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    DS8000 WUI LDAP enhancements

    We would like to see anonymous binding capability for LDAP with Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). Today MSAD LDAP requires a bind ID and Password, which need to be rotated frequently - doing so on 100+ HMCs is not practical and it would also requ...
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity

    IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center - Security granularity
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Protection of namespaces under AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services

    We have customer in Brazil which would like to protect just the namespaces which they have on AKS, storing this backup on Azure Object Storage. Currently, SPP does not support AKS.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    AFM for Object Storage Support

    We have a large set of science data that we save on our IBM Spectrum Scale system and to be able to reduce the amount of spinning fast disk are we using IBM Spectrum Archive to extend our storage to tape. But now does our data science people ask u...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Provide historical n/w metrics in TS7700 historical view

    We experienced recent performance issues in our VTS environment and were having problems isolating the issue. It turned out to be WAN saturation so our 'sync across the WAN' workload was the only ones being slowed down. However, we only came to th...
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect Full VM restore with HD 1 only

    The question is, how to restore the VM without having All Hard Disks, beside "Hard Disk 1" being created and allocated in the datastore. We do backup of "Hard disk 1" only for a VM, see attached "SPFILOPS17 backup detail.jpg" When we restore the V...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect and Open LDAP

    A lot of customer use an openLDAP to secure their IT and enforce all application to use it.
    about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Add an option to remove configuration mode in TSM4VE

    We user the TSM4VE GUI to restore VM and files. At login the configuration mode is checked by default. If the user forget to uncheck it, he enters in the configuration wizard. We are supposed to use the VMWARE Plugin to restore but we have two TSM...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    vRealize Automation (vRA) / vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) plugin with SPP

    Ability to interface SPP with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    Add volume group filtering option to Add Copy Sets Wizard in addition to LSS

    We would like to use CSM for our IBM i, Linux, VIOS, and AIX volumes. Unlike the mainframe storage team, we do not use LSS to manage our disk. All of our disk activities are performed via volume group in the DS8000 GUI. The flash copy option has r...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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