Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Storage Protect Family

Showing 1801

Dissimilar policies for node replication

When using node replication, it would be helpful to be able to specify dissimilar policies for local copies and remote copies.It should be easy to configure and maintain - also in large TSM environments, where ConfigMaster is being used for distri...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

TSMve filerestoreUI and Windows Workgoup

The ability to restore from the new web interface "filerestoreUI" windows machines that are not integrated into a Windows domain (in workgroup mode)
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Node replication to multiple target servers

I thought this feature would be available in TSM server 7.1 but the following indicates otherwise. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fr_repl_restrictions.html Replication server configurationsA...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Eliminate duplicates in replication setup once valid copy exists on replication target server

Successfull replication of data should be considered a valid copy (just as BACKUP STGPOOL to a copy pool) when running IDENTIFY DUPLICATES and DEDUPREQUIRESBACKUP is set to yes.
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Add Direct Access Recovery (DAR) at the directory level for NDMP restores so TSM does not have to scan every backup tape.

See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21223572 IBM needs to add support for Direct Access Recovery (DAR) at the directory level for NDMP restores. DAR support exists at the file level. The DAR would allow Tivoli Storage Manager serv...
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

Missing Error messages when silent installation of Spectrum Protect for VE Recovery Agent fails

After installing successful the datamover in silent mode with this command: spinstall.exe ISFeatureInstall=Client,TSM4VE /silent ComponentsToInstallBa=BackupArchiveGUI,BackupArchiveWeb,Api64Runtime ComponentsToInstallVe=LAP,TSMLicence,documents SU...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

SPP permits to install aditional software as monitoring.

Customer needs to install a monitoring software in the SPP and Vsnap Appliances. This is an important requirement to move to production this environment.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Remote web client for BA client

Evidently, the TSM BA client functionality is limited when launched remotely. When using the BA client locally on Linux or Windows you can edit client preferences. When launching the BA client remotely, client preferences are not available. The on...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Feature so you can have managed SP instances when using TAG based vmware backup

We have quite a few SP servers that are all managed, but now we have to stop that because when doing vmware backup to a Spectrum protect server it can not longer be managed. This is due to the fact that with 8.1.4 the vmgui admin user will update ...
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Enable SPLITLARGEO also during LAN-Free backups

The backups done using LAN-Free do not use the option SPLITLARGEO, so the files biggest that 10Gb are not fragmented, when using the same environment, but without LAN-Free, the backups are splitted on files less, or equal to 10G.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration