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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    Analoga to QUERY OCCUPANCY

    For Nodes with complex data structure is often not enough to get information at the end of dsmc q ba "Path_to_objects/*" -subdir=yes -ina -querysummary with Total Data etc. More detailed aggregated information with backup/archive data amount and n...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Under review

    Allow Spectrum Protect Operations Centre to validate internet access via a proxy

    New Feature in Operations center to manage client autodeploy us currently inoperative if the Customer is running a WEB Proxy as the current release 8.1.4 or the OC cannot authenticate itself for web access and hence can't download the required pac...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Add zstd as a compression option

    It's great to have lz4 and Z as compression options but it would be nice to additional some additional compression options such as zstd.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    install mounting brackets for PDU's in Factory for all drive and library frames

    The IBM TS4500 (3584) ships mounting bracket PN 45E6651 and Pn 45E6652 ONLY if PDU feature code 1951 is ordered. It is impossible to get these brackets in the field. This is also the perfect place for a customer to install a bulk fiber termination...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

    Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Reclaim process improvement

    Every week, our team needs to export tape to an offline vault.Our use case involves having a large # of tapes that are not fully utilized.Thus, we like to consolidate these tapes into a few tape (as few as possible) before exporting them to offlin...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

    TDP for SQL 2012 in Windows 2016

    We have 2 Windows Server 2016 with both SQL 2012 and SQL 2016 instances.We need a TDP client version compatible with these three components, so we can backup all Databases in both SQL versions.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

    Storage System Support for Port-Channel on FC Connections

    Need ALL storage devices to support Port-Channeling of Storage ports with Cisco Switches
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Ingress Rate Limiting for Storage Devices on Fibre Channel

    Need ALL storage devices to support ingress rate limiting with FC connections.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Parameter to exclude powered off virtual machines

    The rule based inclusion- and exclusion parameters for TSMVE 6.4 works very well. However we would like to have the ability to exclude virtual macines that are powered off.
    almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

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