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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    SP4VE FLR - interaction with CyberArk API for

    Today, security is in the center of backup and even more recovery procedure. My customer, big insurance is asking that SP4VE is more integrated with security components and external authentication mechanism.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Support Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 for Product Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family.

    Need client support for updated Lin_Tape Driver on RHLE 6.9 x86/64 (v3.0.21.0) prior to official release in Nov 2017. Related to Current Crit AA1279 AND PMR 10768,082,000.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

    mmdsh quiet mode

    mmdsh currently prints ssh banner messages in the output which is overlapping with the actual cmd output, it will be nice if mmdsh internally uses a quiet mode equalent to ssh -q to ignore the banner messages in the mmdsh cmd output.
    about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

    gpfsperf script improvements

    Though gpfsperf is a sample script, it needs improvements so that the customer local file does not get filled and cause gpfs issues: - Indicate in the read me file that the local tmp file needs to large enough for the filesize to be tested - Indic...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    High redundancy SAS connection between expansion ecnlosure

    The current design in SAS chain can't tolerate the middle of expansion enclosure fail.The middle of expansion enclosure failed will lead to pool offline.Customer hope IBM can provide high redundancy SAS chain to tolerate any of expansion enclosure...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to migrate TSM DB from AIX to x86 Linux server

    Our Server Support team manages and supports hundreds of x86 Linux and MS Windows servers, and are very efficient and adept at doing so. They have retired all older Solaris and AIX servers. However, we still run our TSM servers on AIX, because tha...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

    System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
    about 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    TPC-R integration with VMware SRA for SRM

    I'm submitting on behalf of a customer who's using TPC-R to manage replication between multiple Storwize/SVC systems and supporting IBM i, AIX, Windows and VMware hosts. For VMware, they're using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to automate failover. W...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

    Windows 10 support

    Please let us know when there is a TSM Windows client available to support Windows 10 operating system.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

    Move Restored VM in test mode to production (vMotion)

    Restore VMware quickly and move to production environment
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Not under consideration

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