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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    Detailed information about a problematic inode

    “When we encounter an issue caused by or impacting a specific file which leads to deadlock conditions in the file locking functionality that scale supports the Scale development is able to provide us with an inode value after analysis of gpfs.snap...
    about 2 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    killing running mmbackup processes on all participating nsd server

    In some circumstances (maintenance window / problem investigation) it is important for us to kill all mmbackup sessions on a scale cluster. We, as the storage and backup admingroup in our company struggeling currently in missing a feature that mmb...
    3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhancing DCDM Error Logs with Standardized Error Codes

    In the current implementation of DCDM error logs often contain text messages that describe the issue. However, it is difficult to search for known issues or solutions without a standardized identifier. Also, it is difficult for support engineers t...
    4 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

    Non-blocking Storage Protect server audit library

    Today, when a Storage Protect server requires to run AUDIT LIBRARY on a SCSI library, all Storage Protect server activities on that SCSI library needs to be stopped. Means, processes and sessions already using the SCSI library its tape drives need...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    TDP support for Exchange SE

    Latest Version TDP 8.1.21 only supports up to Exchange 2016/2019, which is going end-of-life 14. Oct 2025.
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Submitted

    TDP support for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 8 for SLES on Power

    TDP for ERP 8.1.11 supports only SAP HANA 2.0 SPS7. Support for SPS8 needed, which is availible since Nov 2024.
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Submitted

    Lock a SP client node and all its backup and archive data to prevent changes and deletions

    In case of a ransom ware attack, customer immediately locks affected Storage Protect Client nodes to prevent attacked nodes from accessing the Storage Protect server. This is done to prevent changes to the Storage Protect clients backup and to pre...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Enable Storage Protect server to write its database backups to two sites in parallel

    For redundancy reasons, customers operate and replicate Storage Protect servers and user data in/ between multiple sites.A Storage Protect server is able today, to write user data ingested into the Storage Protect server to two storage pools in pa...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    S3 to Tape

    Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
    almost 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

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