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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    Add maximum parallel sessions for NDMP backups

    Limit the number of parallel backup sessions for NDMP backups of NetApp (or any other) NAS node.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Support for Infiiband on Storwize (SVC, V7000 and or V5000)

    Infinband usage is being seen in competitors products and need to know when it will be incorporated in the Storwize offering. We're losing deals in DoE labs and NASA to NetApp and Dell because we don't have IB connected storage..
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    LDAP Group Authorization for ADMIN users

    IBM Storage Protect is actually the only product in our environment that is not allowing to map LDAP groups to specific authorization levels. How should this work?You would for example define on the SP server in dsmserv.opt the LDAP url including ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    VSC, Self Service portal, increase in number of allowed servers mapings for a volume for ESX, Hyper-V

    A customer in middle east having VMware Cluster and Hyper-V with more than 20 physical servers. But VSC 5.2.5, Self Service portal , number of allowed servers mappings for a volume limited with 5. This is much less than ESX cluster and Hyper-V clu...
    about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to import OVL into ESX host without vCenter

    In previous versions with the CentOS based OVL it was possible to import the SPP OVL into an ESX host running without vCenter. For the latest 10.1.11, RedHat based OVL this function is not working.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SI Reports filters not flexible

    The reporting utility in SI is very good, but additional flexibility in the filter section is desirable.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

    Simultaneous-write CMOD / Dual Copy on Archive Spectrum Protect Server

    Currently we have the API Client in use for storing ARCHIVE Object on Spectrum Protect Server as archive object. During normal operation we defined on Storage Pool level simultaneous-write on all. We found a lack on functionality, when these CopyP...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Multiple schedules backup per VM Tags

    There is not possible to backup VMs with multiple VM Tags. The Tag category "Schedule" is in settings "One tag". Using tags is in this reason very limited.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Reclaim of offsite Filling volumes

    On old style copypools and the new style protect stg to local tape, reclaim does not occur on tape volumes in state Filling.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    add "estimated time to full" on the reports

    The on prem version of Storage Insights has the ability to have a column with "estimated time to full", which is important to our environment, this is not available on the cloud version of the software.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Functionality already exists

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