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 webproxy/authentication for TSM Auto Client Deployment ftp access

    The Auto Client Deployment function in the TSM Admin Center has the ability to connect to the IBM ftp servers and automatically download client packages, which assists managing large corporate environments. Unfortunately, large corporate environme...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

    DB2 | Consistent Copy | CDM | Safeguarded Copy

    DB2 is an IBM database that is critical to many buisnesses - recoveryability from an immutable copy following a cyber threat is key to a business surviving. IBM currently does not support DB2 in it's own cyber vault story.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Not under consideration

    Missing Error messages when silent installation of Spectrum Protect for VE Recovery Agent fails

    After installing successful the datamover in silent mode with this command: spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=Client,TSM4VE /silent ComponentsToInstallBa=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime ComponentsToInstallVe=LAP,TSMLicence,documents SU...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale and Flashcopy integration to migrate data (files) from one cluster to another cluster.

    Dear, We have a customer who need to copy files from the production environment to the developement environment to offer to the developers the possibility to work with real datas. It is possible to used Flashcopied LVM volumes from one simple serv...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    Node Replication available for NDMP storage pools

    Is it in the roadmap to include storage pools with format=NETAPPDUMP, CELERRADUMP or NDMPDUMP in Node Replication ?
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    IPv6 Support for NDMP

    NDMP-Backup of NAS-Systems (CDOT CAB) not possible in IPv6-Only environment. Datamover creation can't resolve AAAA records, NAS Node needs v4 LIF to open connection to tape server. First step would be to tell the storage system only the DNS name o...
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Multipile tags created via single REST API request

    Currently, tags must be created one by one using a POST request to spectrum discover. Attempting to send a list of tags in JSON like: [ { "tag" : "test1" , "type" : "Characteristics" , "value" : "[ \" True \" , \" False \" ]" } , { "tag" : "test2"...
    over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

    enhancements to allocation manager to help alleviate region request/relinquish thrashing

    When meta regions are small and fragmented and the node count is large a situation can occur in which clients start thrashing the allocation manager requesting and relinquishing meta regions. In our environment this seems to occur most often when ...
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Alter SGC volume threshold percentage via DSCLI

    Currently 85% is the default set in IBM DS8k for SGC volumes threshold. To modify this percentage and to get alerting much earlier, this can be done only by IBM DS8K support team by modifying structure csSfgContNotifThreshold. If the option is ava...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?

    Restore only ACL permission
    about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

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