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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    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...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud 0 Future consideration

    VSS application protection option to TSMVE GUI

    Customers of ours find it very complicated to protect VM's with VSS application protection-Almost everything has been integrated into the VE GUI, but to backup SQL/Exchange VM, you have to go to the OPT file and add INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS option, and in...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    GUI for TDP ORACLE backup and restore

    have a GUI for ORACLE TDP RMAN backups.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for VE vmcli

    I want to run a TSM for VE vmcli backup using an external scheduler (ControlM) so I can chain backups, dedupe's, reclaims, node replications, etc together.The backup command pretty much forces me to use the -I and specify a file with vmname: in it...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

    randam/sequential performance stats in SVC performance data

    randam/sequential performance stats in SVC performance data
    over 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    TSM does not allow versioning of file-attributes only

    TSM does not offer any possibility to do a backup with version control for only(!) the standard UNIX-file-permissions. In fact, TSM does not allow to backup the file-perms only, with or without versioning.
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Multiple data movers

    Multiple data movers
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Enumerate VMs to be backed up

    Enumerate VMs to be backed up
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    TSM for Space Management - file expiration

    The current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) has a migfileexpiration option that "Specifies the number of days a copy of a migrated or premigrated file remains in storage after it is modified on your local file system, or deleted from yo...
    over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 3 Not under consideration

    Disk Drives/Hardware Components - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

    This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
    almost 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Functionality already exists

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