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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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TSM for Virtual Environments VBS (Proxy/Datamover) Virtual Appliance

Deliver TSM for Virtual Environments VBS as a virtual appliance (VBS = Vstorage Backup Server, also known as "proxy" or "datamover").
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Smartcard Authentication for VE web GUI

Our organization enforces the use of smartcards or tokens to authenticate to servers, workstations, and applications. We are requesting that IBM add a smartcard option to the Spectrum Protect for VE "Web GUI".
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Add Timezone Attribute to Node for calculating Scheduled Client Events

Client schedules are currently run based on the current time on the Spectrum Protect server. For cases where the clients are not in the same timezone as the server, this can lead to client schedules running at unexpected times. While adjustments c...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Canceling sessions by name

Running sessions can be cancelled only by session id. .Please add a funcionality to cancel all sessions from one node with a single command. Further: Please add a option to cancel all sessions and prevent reopening of sessions by a node. Thank you...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

SPP - Ability to deploy SPP server VM in KVM

Customers requires to run SP server and SPP server in one box / server HW, but SPP server is not supported to run i KVM.
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Official support for DB2 HADR in Spectrum Protect Server

Although it is easy to find IBM documents recommending DB2 HADR as a replication solution for Spectrum Protect Server database (f.i. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6212198) it is not oficially supported. For this reason these products are ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Need to backup very large EPIC DB files in less than 24 hours

Currently it takes over 36 hours to backup a 60TB file. Need a way to break up large files and mult-stream the segments to reduce the overall time to backup the EPIC database. Need it significantly below 24 hours.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support more Kafka Authentication Methods

Currently, SASL using plaintext username/password is the only Auth method supported for using the Notification feature in COS. Customers would like to use Kafka's more secure authentication methods. The request is to support all of the auth method...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

Ability to split/join storage pools from disparate COS systems

Customers would like to have flexibility with moving/splitting/joining storage pools under the ownership of different COS systems. For example, if a customer must divest a certain portion of data, but the rest, but also keep COS, there is no way t...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted

debug capability for Cloud Object Storage from Spectrum Products

Our team configures Transparent Cloud Tiering - Cloud Object Storage Connection from Spectrum Storage Products (SVC, Virtualize, FS9100, A9000, V7000, V5000).
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration