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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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TSM replication process duration

I think a duration parameter will be great with the replication process of TSM. Duration also exist with expiration, reclamation so why not implement this also with replication
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Detecting bad network connection and perform preventive Action.

When there is a Bad Network connection there is a possibility of receiving malformed or out of sequence Commands. The Spectrum Virtualize products are reacting to this anomaly by rebooting themselves, sometimes both nodes rebooting simultaneously....
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

If TSM hasn't got Full backup of SQL DB, raise Diff/log backup to Full

Now when a 'tdpsqlc backup diff' backup runs for a SQL db instance only DB's with existing Full backup are backed up. DB's that have just been created will make the schedule that starts the backup fail with an error in the tdpsqlc log like this: "...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

TSM Image Backup of encrypted Guardium FS (secfm)

Current Situation and urgent request for enhancement: In our customer environment and according projects encryption services for a Filesystems or Databases are introduced on a regular basis. TSM as our backup suite therefore needs the ability to h...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

Not reuse the same password

TSM Controls does guarantee that the password expire every 90 days, however, it does not have a way to guarantee that the password that is being used is different than the previous one. To avoid findings uncovered in the area of TSM compliance, I ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

extent mirroring rather than migrate within the context of EasyTier

Customer is requesting that the EasyTier functionality that currently migrates extents from spinning disk to SSD/Flash incorporate an extent mirror command instead.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase overview on status of VM backup for administrators

When viewing status for protection of VM backup in Spectrum Protect for Virtual Enviorments, whether in OC or in WebClient we should show what type of backup was successful. Did backup success quiesced or not, is it Microsoft VSS, or VMDDK, or cra...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Support VMware 6.5 and SVC v8.2 with FCM 4.1.6

Require support for FCM/TSM4VE 4.1.6/7.1.6 with VMware ESX 6.5 and SVC 8.2.x
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support RedHat v6.4

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support RedHat v6.4 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.The objective it's to protect (with SPP) Oracle 11g.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect PLUS support Oracle 10g

Important Telco company (Vodefaone) need to support Oracle 10g over RedHat v5.9 with Spectrum Protect PLUS.They have some internal applications and it's impossible to upgrade RH version.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration