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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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Fast way to determine tape location of archive data

A fast way to determine what tapes contain archive data with a particular description. This could also be extended to which tape(s) conatina an archived/backed up file. The query we have to use to determine this information is excrutiatingly slow....
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Use TDP4HANA without ssh connections

Please change installation routine for TDP4HANA so setup.sh script does not require ssh connection to be able to work. Ideally you want to have the option if you want to use ssh to run remote commands (on remote or local hosts) or is you want to r...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 0 Not under consideration

TSM Bandwitdth management

The need is for a TSM client to dynamically modify its behaviour depending on the available bandwith
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Additional controls allowing TSM server "delete filespace" command

A global TSM deployment with many TSM servers. Our organization has identified an issue with the current TSM Administrator support framework. The issue is the TSM support team currently has access to TSM server backup data as well as the primary d...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SVC Threshold Based SNMP

Threshold based capacity and performance SNMP alerts should be configurable
almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Threshold Based SNMP

Threshold based capacity and performance SNMP alerts should be configurable
almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Configurable SNMP Alerts

Repeat SNMP alerts for errors not fixed within a given window should be configurable
almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TSM for VE linux guest file level restore (without using windows for mounting)

We would like to restore files (file level) for Linux virtual machine whout using windows server for iSCSI mounting. Since we do not have any windows servers/guests in our environment.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Not under consideration

VTS / VIRTUAL VOLUMES SEARCH / possibility to NOT save searches

In virtual Volume Search interface we want to have possibility to clic on option "save search request?" if we want to save this new request search in the "previous Searches"
almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

Include Date/Time Stamp option on Sessions panel

A Timestamp column is available on the Session Details panel. However, this column is not available on the main Sessions panel. Please allow the customer the option to customize columns with Timestamp as an option.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration