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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Pinned ideas

PINNED FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage
FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
Share feedback 4

All ideas

    Showing 6073 of 6073

    Replication job shows as error

    SPP shows a replication job as a failure, but only because there was nothing to replicate not because of an actual error. Perhaps the error message type could be changed here so the job doesn't fail.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

    GFS2 Support with TSM

    GFS2 File systems are not supported with TSM currently and would like to see if we could enhance the support in future TSM versions. We are running TSM server version 6.2.4 now ( will be upgrading to 6.3 by next month) and client version used is 7...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

    TSM Server version history

    Sometimes it is necessary to known what time you did run which version on your TSM server. For example when you may affected by an APAR(IC71049) which should be fixed in the current version you are running, but you still have older volumes affecte...
    over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Planned for future release

    Tivoli Storage Manager For Virtual Environments Restoring a single VMDK

    I am trying to restore just 2VMDKS ( 70GB in total) for a virtual machine but I fail if I do not have the storage capacity to restore the whole virtual machine ( approx 840GB) .
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

    SCDM notify on failure only

    SCDM should have an option to send notification emails on job failures only instead of for every result. I don't really need an email for a successful job.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    SCDM should support daylight savings time

    SCDM should support daylight savings time
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    HyperSwap shows degraded host

    Hello. In Sberbank Russia we tested HyperSwap on Storwize V7000 one year ago.Our SAN infrastructure not supported cross link connectivity between HOST1 - STORAGE2 and HOST2 and STORAGE1 (picture 1). Now, in HOSTS menu hosts in degraded status (pic...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache

    preallocating space in a file running an AFM cache isn't supported at present. This is partially documented here:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY_4.2.3/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v4r23.doc/bl1ins_afmlimitations.htm At least it men...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    BMR to dissimilar hardware

    We frequently have to perform BMR to dissimilar hardware. This has to be done using something like Christie and the functionality is not availabile in Spectrum Protect. However it is available in competitor products. Both Avamar and Net Backup hav...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Protect client using port 9081, same as BigFix

    The new tsm client 8.1.7+ is using default port 9081 for file level restore operations via web.The problem is that is the same port as tsm4ve and the same port as bigfix. IBM should not release different products using the same default port. One o...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.