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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    Improper Session Management - Simultaneous Sessions

    This issue is related to same user opening multiple sessions either with different browsers and different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user.
    over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Needs more information

    Ability to set schedule on the TS7700 cache process

    By the default, the TS7700 cache walk process runs every four hours daily, except on Sunday for a period of about 18 hours. This cache walk process has raised some concern from many customers that it may impact job run time.
    over 6 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    TSM ADMIN CLI Timeout

    Idle timeouts do not operate when using the TSM ADMIN CLI.This is violation of security standards and requires an immediate fix or workaround...ADMINIDLETIMEOUT doesnt seem to work for idle admin sessions...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    LVM mirror support within a single storage system, also without backup server.

    We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Hyperswap support for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

    We have a clustered pair of V7000 Gen3's which I would like to use with SPS for DB2 database snapshots. SPS does not currently support either hyperswap volumes, or LVM mirroring of two volumes on the same storage system (copies of which would resi...
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Improve documentation

    The new IBM Product IBM Spectrum Protect Online Services (SPPOS) have support to backup M365 to a IBM Spectrum Protect S3 Objcet Agent Server. But the problem is that since a few weeks back SPPOS doesn't support self-signed certificate. By defaul...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

    provide enhanced alternative to file-list with Spectrum Protect B/A Client

    Currently, the filelist parameter requires a flat file to be provided. This is a poor performing data structure, and IBM development has pointed out that performance could be increased by being able to provide an alternative data structure, such a...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on AIX server

    The initial implementation of Aspera with TSM will be on xLinux. Very few of our customers run TSM on xLinux. Most run TSM server on Windows and AIX, with larger installations on AIX. Aspera needs to be integrated with TSM on AIX server to support...
    almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE within vCenter web client

    TSM for VE vCenter plugin currently integrated into the vCenter web client Since the direction VMware appears to be heading with the vSphere client is a web-only client (not a .Net "fat" client), efforts need to be made to create the same function...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    SP for Databases warning for restoring VSS backups

    A warning and summary should be implemented to confirm any kind of restore. When in the SP for Databases GUI, it is possible with 1 wrong click to initiate a SQL DB restore on a (production) system (log and full SQL)This should prevent "accidental...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration

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