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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    This applies to Spectrum CDM: Oracle settings after a restore

    When running a Spectrum CDM restore job that will mount an Oracle instance from a snapshot on a host, automatic Oracle setting coming from Spectrum CDM does not enable to restart automatically Oracle instance if the host is rebooted after the rest...
    over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE UUID Change

    When a VM uuid changes and an existing filespace with that VM name exists in TSM the BM backup fails. Using testflag VMBACKUP_UPDATE_UUID works around this problem by having TSM check vCenter for the current UUID. This should be the default behavi...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    Full VM Restore into alternate datastore, add capacity, util + free space of target datastore

    When performing a full VM restore into an alternate datastore it would be more than helpful to see besides the datastore name also the information about the whole capacity / utilized capacity / free capacity of the datastore to be able to select a...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Backing-Out CSM upgrade on DS8K Box.

    1. The ability to revert/back-out/uninstall a CSM upgrade on a DS8K machine and reinstate the CSM server software that was just overlaid with the new code.
    over 7 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Allow configuration of filespace for Hyper-V backups

    When you backup a Hyper-V VM using the "backup vm" command, the files representing the VM are stored in their own filespace. This effectively excludes them from expiration on deletion, as filespace aren't subject to expiration. When a VM is delete...
    almost 15 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Enable/disable EasyTier for a volume in the GUI

    Currently the Easy Tier setting for a volume cannot be changed in the SVC GUI. A function should be added to the properties panel of a volume.
    almost 15 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Incremental backup support in NDMP based backup for IBM TSM 7.1.

    Require Incremental backup support for NDMP based backup in IBM TSM.
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE support of VRA

    TSM support for vRA (VMware vRealize Automation Center) based VMs
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Add TSM4VE control files to TSM DB

    Currently a diskpool is required to hold control files for TSM4VE backups. This data would be much easier to manage if it were located directly in the TSM DB
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

    Mailbox restore wizard

    The procedure of restoring item level requires me to install TDP for Exchange on one of the DAG nodes and start the mailbox restore wizard. Unfortunately you HAVE to install TDP for Exchange on the DAG node.In our days customers wants to remove an...
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

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