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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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Automated Rerun of TSM Schedules

I propose that additional client schedule options are added to customise the behaviour and reporting of the backup success.<br /><br />This would be achieved by adding an option to automatically re-run the backup as a whole a number of...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

New warning message if object is larger than defined MaxObjSize on Storage pool

If a file is being backed up to a deduplication enabled storage pool, there has been defined a max object size on that pool - and the next pool not is dedup enabled, the following message is issued: ANS7906W The current storage pool ran out of spa...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

allow users to add a delay to trigger ESC quorum race in case of sites being disconnected to allow for SAN re-connection

allow users to add a few seconds to the SVC re-try and decision process before triggering a quorum race in case of loss of connection between sites. This would allow redundant inter-site connection to complete SAN connectivity between sites fail o...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files

'dsmc i' should never re-backup restored-unchanged files
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

add fast format (quick format) in SVC

Please add quick format (or fast format) on spectrum virtualize platforms similar to as it's implemented currently on DS8000.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

improve flexibility of Spectrum Protect Plus SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms

present SPP design limitation don't well support SLA association with Vcenter folders and vms simultaneously. the association operations on folders and vm under same folder may cause VM failed to be associated with expected SLA as expected. custom...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Is a defect

Concurrent failover of SVC Config node

Currently if the SVC cluster needs to fail over the config node it causes the hardware node that is the config node to reboot. This can expose problems to the paths and servers connected to this node, which can lead to loss of access or the necess...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Metadata Search for Repository backups

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus needs the ability to keep track of VMware metadata for backups once a a backup is moved off to a repository or S3 location. Not having the ability search for metadata (file search) on long term repository backups defeat s...
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Hyper scale manager CSR Generation

This is for IBM Hyperscale manager application request for CSR generation for certificate renewal We don't find any option so we logged a case with IBM spectrum control
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Improve Host reporting in Spectrum Control

Spectrum Control has some ability to report hosts that are making use of resources, such as volumes on a Spectrum Virtualize pool. But this reporting is not complete.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration