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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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Requesting built-in file transfer module (ie:FTP) with FastBack product package.

Requesting bundle FTP ( whatever file transfer function) with FastBack product package.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Avoid OS reboot by the time of applying a fix/FP.

Each time applying a fix/FOR, it will require reboot OS. It has to be applied those fix without reboot as other product such as ARCserve and some other products.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Want to have a setting or configuration to control the upper limit of the memory usage for the FastBack Server.

Want to have a setting or configuration to control the upper limit of the memory usage for the FastBack Server.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

Request improvement of diagnosis and logging function.

Request improve of diagnosis and logging function is desired for FastBack user who are typical Fastback customers such as small and medium enterprise.They have limited resources to manage system, and can't challenge problem reproduction again and ...
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack 2 Not under consideration

SVC Android mobile applicatoin

Manage SVC from android phone or tablet. Apple IOS version is available, would like to extend this to Android.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Global Mirror relationships increased to 5

Increase the number of SVC global mirror relationships an SVC may have to 5. I believe the current limit is 3.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SVC Flash as Cache

Customer requests that SVC be able to use flash drives as cache.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Enable to set threshold when error drive is offline on V7000

On customer's V7000, a disk drive reported transient errors "Drive medium error" (ErrorCode=1321) for several day, and finally turned to offline.Before turned to offline, disk I/O delayed, so customer's application got error and end user couldn't ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Client Code Deployment for TDP modules

Currently, TSM has the ability to deploy the standard Backup & Archive clients from a central location. It would be very useful to have the same ability for TDP for Databases and TDP for Mail as well.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 5 Not under consideration

QUERY VOLHISTORY - search by volume_name

It would be nice to be able to query the volume history file for records relating to a specific volume name.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration