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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 capability to extract data from existing TSM backup to a second node

A lerge number of customer require periodic long retention backups.    Currently the most space efficient way of achieveing this is by having a second node for the long term retention and running periodic ( e.g. weekly, monthly, quarterl...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TDP Exchange doesn't support restoring mailboxes greater then 2,1 GB

We need to restore mailboxes into a single pst-files.Restoring process stopped after appr. 2,1 GBError message: ACN5935W The mailbox restore operation has only partially completed.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

Multiple journal based services on AIX

We would like to have multiple journal based services on AIX. As far as we know, actually this is just implemented on Windows systems but we would like to have it on our AIX and Linux systems.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Backups whitout vmware quiescing

If a problem whitin a vm exist and quiescing does not work, it would be good to be able to do an crash consistent backup.
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

SVC Global Mirror with Change Volumes. Force a remote sync cycle on demand.

Need a way to achieve an "application consistent" remote sync point on demand, without the need to pause the application for a full cycle period. Need to pause the application for 5 seconds or less. That is, need GMCV to perform like Traditional G...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TDP Domino support for RHEL6 64-bit

Currently, the latest TDP for Domino for Linux x86 is version 5.5.3, which supports only RHEL 5 for 64-bit systems. Most customers are using Domino with RHEL 6 64-bit. Do we have roadmap to support RHEL6 64-bit with TDP for Domino?
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

Image backup of Oracle ASM

Customer is interested in doing raw backup of Oracle ASM disk. Currenty is only supported via TDP For Databases or via FlashCopy Manager. This is only valid like logical backup but our customer wants to know if it is possible to save the volumes w...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

support larger blocksizes for virtual volumes

AUDIT VOLUME and RESTORE VOLUME performancefor virtual volumes (VV) is much lower than write performancefor VV. The difference of performance is measured not in percentor tens of percent but in factors like tens. For example fromPMR48910,077 we ge...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Virtual Environments Server Backup Sets

Requesting the ability for TSM4VE to be able to create group listings of servers to do backups and restores. Basically the ability to say that if we want to restore an application enviornment which spans multiple servers, we can restore that set o...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Provide support in FlashCopy Manager for refresh from pureScale to non-pureScale DB2

IBM FlashCopy manager needs to support new DB2 (10.5) function that allows pureScale-based DB2 systems to be restored to a non-pureScale-based system. Prior to 10.5, this was not possible, but now, based on an OFFLINE backup, it is possible to res...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 2 Not under consideration