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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Storage Protect Family

Showing 3034

Missing WEB-client in ISP 8.1.2 and later

We updated one of out ISP-Servers (AIX) to Version 8.1.3 a few days ago. After having finished that I also updated one Windows Agent to BA-Version 8.1.2 (file Server). Everything is working fine except the fact, that the WEB-Client is no longer su...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect Plus SLA removal options

When removing SLA in Spectrum Protect Plus the following options should be presented:1. Delete now2. Preserve until retention expires3. Retention hold
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Include SNMPD in appliance

Please add snmpd module to the appliance.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Planned for future release

Add possibility to change SQL agent communication IPs

The SPP SQL Agent needs to communicate with the ISP GUI to get the credentials for mounting the SMB log volume from the vSnap.Unfortunately it's not possible to change the IP or network which is used for this communication. This is a big issue in ...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Better performance/parallelism on generate dedupstats

It will be usefull to be able to use "generate dedupstats" to generate daily usage information for nodes/nodegroups on a multitenant setup.Unfortunately, the performance of the current "generate dedupstats" makes it impossible for us to generate t...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

postgreSQL Support

PostgreSQL is a database very common in customers. Currently, many clients are using this database to replace Oracle databases. We see this requirement in RFIs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

success ful backup in database

So according to this case the filespace table in database, column "last_successful_backup" for Exchange TDP is only updated if replication is configured. If replication is not running, this value is not updated as it should.
4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

eMail encryption for Operations Center

As security requirements increase, it is our company policy to send encrypted emails with authentication. Can you please add SmartTLS with TLSv1.2 and authentication (port 587/tcp) as feature on Spectrum Protect Operations Center ?
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

Multiple tenants SPP catalog backups to single external vsnap

Add support for replicating multiple SPP catalog backups to a single external VSNAP that is only visible the source server account.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.