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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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Moving a node to another domain should not remove it from the backup schedule automatically.

Logically the command to move the node to another domain should have failed until I removed the node from the current backup schedule as the domain is tied to the schedule. Or I would expect a message prompting to continue informing me that the no...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Is a defect

Increase the maximum number of partnerships between the local and remote SVC/V7/V9

Client has a V7 and (2) V9s that replicate to a single V7 in DR. They need to add an additional V9 in prod and want to replicate it to the same V7 in DR. To accomplish this Client needs IBM to increase the maximum number of partnerships between th...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

HYDRA encryption managed by the SMS constructs

Protecting data through encryption can be set on a per pool basis, which enables you to encrypt all or some of your data when it is written to the back-end tapes on TS7720, or for the whole disk cache. Customer would like to have encryption manage...
about 10 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

SVC custom alerting

Customer would like to change the error code 1187 to a higher severity than warning. Warning would not generate an email to let them know that they have a node down. Alternatively would like to change alerting on individual error codes.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SPP 10.1.1 removed ability for user to change their own password?

In SPP 10.1.1, it appears a natively defined user is not able to change their own password which is a change from previous version of 10.1.0.
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

FILE volume locking

During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

TSM Operation Center features

The Operations Center for TSM needs some updates to become really useful:s. attached file
about 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Not under consideration

DS8000 GUI should show degraded status, if a redundand compounent is down or under rebuild

The DS8000 is built with a lot of redundancy in it. To prevent drive failures to cause a data loss situation, RAID-6 has been chosen for protection. Customer wants to get a simple information or status, if the machine is in a 'degraded status' by ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

TSSC automated FTP offload of configuration data

System: IBM TS3000 System Console The IBM TSSC is being used as call home device and for event logging of TS3500 events from multiple libraries. An audit requirement is that we are making regular backups of the TSSC configuration information and t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

Flash Copy Manager support for Solaris 11

Flash Copy Manager is supported for Solaris 10.x, but not for Solaris 11.x
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration