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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Storage Protect Family

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Linux filesystems not supported

there are some filesystems that tsm do not support, and appear as UNKNOWN on tsm, like Red Hat GFS.

Prevent storing duplicate filespaces in a DAG setup with active/active configuraiton

I have a customer where they use DAG setup on MS Exchange 2010. They move the active databases between the Exchange server nodes and this result in a new filespace under the proxy node used for backup of the Exchange environment. Thereby data are ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

Enhance SnapDiff Backups to run alongside SnapMirror

Currently, SnapDiff backups have two possible options. –diffsnapshot=create, which is the default, means that TSM creates the snapshot and then compares that with the previously created snapshot to determine the difference for backups. This has a ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Delivered

Exchange TDP scheduler enhancments

Current Exchange 2010 DAG environment allows for moment of active DB. TSM TDP is not able to adequately keep pace or understand this. Additional features need to be built in to allow for choice or/opt file, selection of backup preferences.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Send Email from TSM Server

Send email from TSM server.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Delivered

TSM support for Centera devices on 64bit Windows OS's

Currently, while TSM 6.2 is supported on 64bit Windows (such as Windows 2008 R2), and the EMC Centera APIs are also supported on 64bit Windows as of the current 3.2 fp5 release, TSM server does not support connectivity to Centera devices on 64bit ...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered