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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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Spectrum Protect should have an oracle agent that replaces RMAN entirely, so proper object metadata can be handled internally, allow proper expeiration, retsets, etc.

Spectrum Protect has long been plagued by retention problems with Oracle backups. RMAN owns all of the metadata, and keeping this in sync requires sync tools, etc. In large environments, often the DBA team and the Backup team are separated. This l...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

one way password implementation on tsm server

During a security audit we found some probleme with the implementation of password allgorithm in TSM. It is recommended to immplement a one way password encryption algorithm, at least for the TSM server accounts (Admins, server to server, lan free...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

dsm.opt file getting blanked out when disk is full

We have observed couple of times that on Windows BA client dsm.opt file is getting banked out. dsm.opt size becomes 0 bytes and file is empty. We are using node replication. When disk is full and node replication is being used then while running b...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Is a defect

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.

Ability to define the mirrorwritepriority parameter during creation of a vdisk mirroring in the GUI.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

Requesting that customer system name be included in Call Homes for ESS and IBM Storage products.

It has been noted that ESS Call Home cases (inclusive of other IBM Storage as well) do not have the name of the system in the cases description. We are requesting that this change so that system names are included in the call home for the CSP case...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

change owner ID of archived objects, in GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if owner id not exist anymore

change owner ID of archived objects.In GUI it is not possible to see the archived data if the owner id does not exist anymore. we were advised that we should open an RFE for this: Answer from IBM: There is not a way to change OWNER after the objec...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Snaps - customer related info

SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration