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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    Solaris x86 TSM Client support for Version 7.x

    We have productive Solaris Servers both x86 and SPARC on Solaris 10 and 11. We run our SAP-Environment and other Services and continue to deploy further Functionalities on Solaris. Most of our central Products run on Solaris. There are no plans to...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 5 Not under consideration

    SQL Service User per SQL instance

    We're currently having a customer who wants to backup multiple SQL Failover Cluster Instances but don't want to specify only one service user for Spectrum Protect Plus which has all the sysadmin rights over all instances running in the SQL Cluster...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Request for extra RHEL8 packages in ESS

    We have a list of OS packages that we would love to have included in ESS 6.x.x.x, now that we no longer can install any RHEL package like we could in ESS v5. Inclusion of any of the below packages is helpful for us, if you say no to some packages ...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

    Implement CRLs for SSL/TLS communications for ISP

    DoD customer implementing IBM Spectrum Protect. Reviewing usage of PKI with IBM Spectrum Protect Server and Client. DoD requires the use of DoD provided Root Certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists. Currently IBM Spectrum Protect supports th...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    Lanfree Backup to COS/S3/Blob Storage

    Enable Lan free backup support for Multi Cloud. Allow nondedup container pool.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Run Spectrum Scale in IBM FS Cloud

    Run Spectrum Scale in the IBM FS CLoud to feed a Hybrid Cloud data fabric. Help IBM to better compete VS MSoft Azure and Cloudera's Ozone.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to create a cascade of clones that are independent from each other

    If a database was cloned with FlashCopy Manager and this clone (D1) serves as source for another clone (D2) it is currently not possible to refresh D1 without deleting D2. For some scenarios this restriction has technical reasons. But by using ful...
    about 14 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 3 Planned for future release

    Time Machine over SMB

    Since the last OSX release, Apple has deprecated they're "AFP" protocol and want to use SMB for everything, TimeMachine included.In order to have a SMB share working with TimeMachine, it need to complain some specs. Here are the specs: https://dev...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    Protecting Wide Cluster resources using Fusion UI

    If we want to protect any cluster resources of any namespace, We have to create a recipe and assign it to specific application
    about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

    Renaming MDF & LDF files during restore

    Hello, The renaming of source MDF and LDF files for MSSQL DB during restore operation is basic functionality of any backup/restore software. It provides effective way how to store and structuralize files of DB. Since restored DB is usually new DB ...
    about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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