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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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TPC-R integration with VMware SRA for SRM

I'm submitting on behalf of a customer who's using TPC-R to manage replication between multiple Storwize/SVC systems and supporting IBM i, AIX, Windows and VMware hosts. For VMware, they're using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to automate failover. W...
over 9 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

The Protection summary screen shouldn't show the replica VMs

Spectrum Protect Plus "Protection Summary" screen shows our replica machines that replicated with Recover Point.This is a misleading situation. Both our machine count and the number of machines that are not backed up seem wrong.It needs to be fixed.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Future consideration

Windows 10 support

Please let us know when there is a TSM Windows client available to support Windows 10 operating system.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable REST via commandline

REST API has to be enabled using Open Webbrowser, Login, and Check the "Enable REST" Checkbox.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Option to display session and process numbers without commas

Displaying sessions (q sess) or processes (q pro) without commas will allow an administrator to cut/paste session/process numbers into other commands (can sess xxxxx) quickly and accurately . this will eliminate the need to display and manually in...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

TSM Server "Define Clientaction" Command Issue

System: TSM Server all versions Actor: Define Clientaction Command need to be trimmed with "REQUIRED" parameters. Description: TSM Server, "define clientaction" command is not having any required paramters right now. If we run "define clientaction...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Support to backing up MongoDB on Ubuntu servers

We have MongoDB on Ubuntu servers and need to backup them.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Backing up prefered SQL Always-on node

We want to be able to choose which node to backup on a SQL Always-on infrastructure.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Hyper-V support on Windows Nano or Core servers

Customer has about to move from VMware to Hyper-V for the hypervisor. They are going to install Hyper-V on Windows Nano or Core and they are looking for either of these to become a supported platform for the Data Mover and the Recovery Agent.
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable

Tape libraries (TS4500, TS4300, TS3200, TS3310, and TS3500) to alert if any and all encryption servers are not reachable. This would useful during production monitoring.
almost 4 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration