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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    V7000 Gen1 PCIe bus issue causing Node aserts

    When the node asserts due to a PCIe issue the node is taken offline. This impacts performance and redundancy. An IBM CE is required to reseat the node to bring it back online.
    over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

    Generate Backupset enhancements

    We use the Generate Backupset option for long term offsite storage. With this we use Nodegroups to capture depending on how long a set should be kept for. What would be nice is if: A) reporting was a little more accurate...when a set runs I'll hav...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    Supported for LDAP Configuration user passwords to include dollar symbol

    Spectrum Discover does not currently support the "$" symbol in the LDAP Admin user password when setting up LDAP authentication.We would prefer to include special characters in the password for security, we request "$" be allowed by Spectrum Disco...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

    Tivoli Central Console shows Wrong Data

    TSM FastBack for Workstations Central Administration Console does not show the correct data.
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 2 Not under consideration

    Different method to reset an expired password for MI users

    At present when a password expires in VTS MI the only way to reset it is asking the CE to open a PMH to reset the admin user so it can reset the password of the user affected.The customer would like that each user can reset their own password with...
    over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

    Password expiration granularity for VTS MI users

    At present the password expiration policy for MI users is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration policiy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for diffe...
    over 9 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE / Reporting Enhancement / Daily Backups at VM level

    Daily Status of TSM/VE backups at VM level with following columns: . Schedule start . Actual start . Actual finish . Schedule name . VM name . Cluster name . Backup Completion status . Error code if failed
    over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Password expiration granularity for DS Storage Manager users

    At present the password expiration policy for DS8000 is setup at global level, this makes that all users have to have the same password expiration polciy. The customer needs to be able to specify a different password expiration policy for differen...
    over 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Would like choice to ONLY show tags for selection if present in results list

    When we search through metadata and get a table of results, we can choose which columns to show and which to hide Many tags are not defined for my selections results, we would like to only have tags present in the results list in the tag column di...
    over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

    Change of compression method in TSM Client API

    Background:The backup takes too long time (did not complete within backup window).The restore and recovery takes too long time. They investigated if compression of the SQL Server data can help to fulfill the backup and restore time, and figured ou...
    almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 5 Not under consideration

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