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 Comprehensive Spectrum Protect support for OpenStack

    Our organization currently uses IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments for VMWare to provide data protection for VMware VM instances using the common vSphere web GUI inteface.The imminent direction for the organization is to move to the ope...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Query output explanation required

    HelloPlease provide me with the detailed explanation of the output (columns and their values) of command that is executed on the datamover: SHOW VM ALLThank you.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Journal Based Backup Stall

    In this case, the journal database was not updating and so backups became stale until a Full Incremental was run. This request is for a monitoring alert for when the journal db does not receive any updates, perhaps in the last 24 hours.
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Is a defect

    Connect TS7700 to an AWS S3 bucket with an IAM Role

    Our customer wants to be able to connect their TS7700 to an AWS S3 Bucket using an IAM Role without the need of the access key and the secret key.
    about 2 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Integration of change volumes into the stretched cluster concept

    When using vdisk mirror between two data centers in a stretched cluster configuration SVC also needs to ensure that the change volumes are mirrored in the same way as the primary volumes to avoid loss of the GM mirror.
    about 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    SCDM -Change virtual restore SCSI controller from VMware LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual

    SCDM RFE - Currently, when SCDM performs restores of the virtual environment, it creates a SCSI controller in the vCenter that is set to LSI Logic SAS. The request is to change the SCSI controller from LSI Logic SAS to VMware Paravirtual.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    DSCLI does not have any PPRC validation

    While trying to initialize disks with ICKDSF, all defined address failed in Extended Long Busy state after a DSCLI configuration change on MGM defined sessions.The change was done on SSID definition and it did not follow correct definition rules s...
    about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    increase IBM Spectrum Protect transfer rates to SWIFT/S3 capable ObjectStore

    Current data chunks aggregation rate between TSM's deduplication engine and HTTP PUTs is too low to take full advantage of huge bandwidth SWIFT ObjectStore can provide, especially when Erasure Coded data placements algorithm is used.
    about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

    Generate Archive set

    The amount of data are always growing but the transfer rate between client and server is still very slow and IBM and many other backup software are trying to solve the data transfer by using Duplication. Normally are a client only doing a Archive ...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Optimized backup support for deduplicated windows server file systems

    TSM client cannot deal with natively deduplicated windows filesystems, it is only able to handle deduplicated data efficiently through image backups.The problem is that image backups are not incremental, they are huge and take too long to be viabl...
    about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

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