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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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Add option to backup VM with Shared Virtual Hard Disks.

With the current release of IBM Spectrum Protect for Hyper-V, VM's with Shared virtual disks cannot be backed-up (error message: ANS2552E Backup of a virtual machine that has a shared virtual hard disk is not supported.). Add an option similar lik...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Improper Session Management - Simultaneous Sessions

This issue is related to same user opening multiple sessions either with different browsers and different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Needs more information

API to return changed blocks since last backup

While Spectrum Scale synergy with Spectrum Protect (TSM) is great and completely adapted to the backup of a file system that is hosting a very large number of files (basically used as a file server) that are added every day and some of them being ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Better client messaging for unsuported node replication settings needed

A better client messaging is needed to better find the root cause of incorrect node replication settings.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

HP StoreOnce Catalyst Integration for TSM

HP StoreOnce Catalyst enables deduplication to be deployed in flexible, cost effective ways that were not previously possible. It provides enhanced multi-site and cascaded replication options to balance performance, cost, and resiliency. Exploitin...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

improvement for 'Generate backupset' to support SQL and Exchange filespaces

Backupsets are a great way to handle data to be stored for long term retention. Lots of TSM customers use backupsets for that purpose. Alas it's not possible to generate a backupset for filespaces containing data from TDP backups such as SQL and E...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Not under consideration

DRP Pool -> Migrate vDisk between DRPs

Introduction of the migratevdisk command for DRP pools.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Improve documentation

The new IBM Product IBM Spectrum Protect Online Services (SPPOS) have support to backup M365 to a IBM Spectrum Protect S3 Objcet Agent Server. But the problem is that since a few weeks back SPPOS doesn't support self-signed certificate. By defaul...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

Expand mmrsync to accept filelist

mmrsync accepts the filenames only as parameters. Extend it to also accept a filename containing a list of files to sync.
about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration