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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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SVC Encryption Algorithm Not Shown in GUI/CLI

After enabling SVC software encryption and encrypting all storage pools a customer requested that we provide a proof of encryption including algorithm used to encrypt data at rest. To our surprise SVC does not show algorithm used for the encryptio...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Data Shredding on Container Storage Pools

In some multi-tenancy TSM environments using Container Storage Pools there may be a requirement to prove to a specific user that data belonging to a backup client has been deleted from the Storage Pool. Even after the reuse delay has elapsed, it i...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Over calculation of space needed for NDMP backup

When attempting to do an NDMP backup of a virtual filespace, instead of looking at the amount of data in the filespace that is being backed up, TSM looks at the entire used storage of the NAS filer to determine whether the storage pool target is l...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots 4.1.6 support VMware 6.5

The customer HDI Seguros have IBM FlashSystem 7200 and IBM Spectrum control. They need create snapshots with an schedule with retentions. So, they need to use IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshots for this Use case. They Have VMware 6.5 and Oracle DB.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 physical WORM

Logical WORM protection in TS7700 protects virtual volumes from being modified or deleted from the host perspective. However, it does not provide a protection from physical damage of e.g. the cache. Once migrated to physical tape there is also no ...
about 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

SVC SNMP alert repeat interval

The SNMP alerts are currently re-issued periodically. This results in operations paging out the storage team each time. We would like a means to suppress subsequent reissued alerts once the primary alert has been delivered. The purpose of this is ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support to include/exclude Nested Vmfolders

I was thinking of using VMFOLDER to select VMs. While trying to figure out the syntax for specifying a nested folder, the link (http://www-01. ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938) was brought to my attention. Basically, TSM VE only allows ...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

VSAN and Sp. protect for VE

I need for a very big French customer that IBM spectrum Protect for VE VMware support backup / restore VM set up on VSAN
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

User credentials(Username/password) visible in plain-text

As per Bank's IS policy/regulatory guidelines , sensitive information like username/password should to encrypted end to end. However in IBM products, SKLM(IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager) and IBM Spectrum Control., these sensitive info...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Under review