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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    Client Side de-dupe when LAN Free backup on disk using GPFS

    Ability to enable to client side data deduplication functionality in case of LAN free backup on disk in GPFS environment.
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 3 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Virtualize/Storwize /Flash need more notification options

    The Spectrum Virtualize code (and related systems) allow email addresses to have combinations of notification emails sent (inventory, info, warning, and error). At least as of FlashSystems version 1.5.1.2, a new restriction is being enforced. Atte...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Reporting Enhancements for TSM4VE environment

    With TSM version 6.3.5 the rename filespace command is not supported anymore. This feature provided to us possibility of having a clear separation of active and expired(decomissioned) VMware virtual machine filespaces.We also used for monitoring a...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    DataStore Free Space Check Before Creating Snapshot

    TSMVE Should check Free Space on VMware Data Store Before creating a snapshot. If there is low space on Datastore then Snapshot can cuase the Datastore to go out of diskspace and unstable the VM's on that Datastore
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Repackage the Visual C++ installer to install to same folder as TSM Client during installation to avoid conflict with apps

    We need the TSM Client to install its VC++ component into a different directory than the default common/shared directory that other apps use. This is so that when we install or upgrade the tsm client, it does not upgrade the shared VC++ that other...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

    Support Debian 9 with ISS 4 and 5

    Support Spectrum Scale on Debian 8 and later for ISS 4.2.3 and 5.0.0 and later.
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Request Compatiblity Between TSM Ver 7, Rel 1, Level 0.100 and Ver 5, Rel 5, Level 7.0 with Oracle Linux Server release 6.9

    System: Storage Management Server for AIX - Version 7, Release 1, Level 0.100 and Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 5, Release 5, Level 7.0.Actor: VALE Request: Vale is implementing an Oracle Cloud Migration Project in Oracle EXA...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

    HYDRA encryption managed by the SMS constructs

    Protecting data through encryption can be set on a per pool basis, which enables you to encrypt all or some of your data when it is written to the back-end tapes on TS7720, or for the whole disk cache. Customer would like to have encryption manage...
    almost 12 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Not under consideration

    SVC custom alerting

    Customer would like to change the error code 1187 to a higher severity than warning. Warning would not generate an email to let them know that they have a node down. Alternatively would like to change alerting on individual error codes.
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    FILE volume locking

    During the migration or stgpool backup of a FILE class storage pool, the process will 'hang' when it encounters a locked volume. The volume will remain locked if there is a long-running backup session or the client does not terminate correctly. If...
    almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 5 Not under consideration

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