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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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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.

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"Autoexpand" option for THIN and Compressed volumes on SVC

We are currently using IBM SVC v7.5.x and v7.6.x. We found that while creating THIN or Compressed volumes using GUI, option "Automatically Expand" option is enabled by default, however while creating THIN and Compressed volumes using CLI, we need ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Extend TSM4VE to allow for "incremental forever" VMWare backups

Need to be able to do VMWare incremental image backups without doing periodic full backups.
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Planned for future release

Easytier PROD,DEV,TEST

Allow tier participation, selection by LUN. Today, each LUN can only be selected easytier on/off.
over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

"VM-GROUPs" for VMs

Possibility to build a Group for VMs like Nodegroups for easier handling with the backup vm schedule
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Discover Reporting

Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
over 4 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Not under consideration

TSM backup support for 2016 Nano Servers

We are in need of the ability to backup 2016 Nano Servers with TSM EE
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect for Enterprise Resource Planning 8.1.0 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE

We need to have the IBM Spectrum Protect ERP 8.1 for HANA running on SUSE 12 LE on POWER.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 1 Not under consideration

Request for Function to decompress data for Storage Pool Migration

Request for function to decompress Data for Storage Migration pool. Currently, we have difficulty to migrate the Data backed up in Physical Tape Drive to new VTL Drive (Protectier + XIV) Data backed up in current Physical Tape Drive is compress by...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Decomission Enhancements

We have been talking to multiple large clients regarding decommission feature.Decomission Node/VM is a great utility but it doesn't fully support all customers needs in it's current form. Decomission Node/VM should support the following options fr...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

Support standards for browser interoperability

As per requirements listed at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21515628 TSM Admin Center requires an obsolete, broken, unsupported brain dead version of Firefox. According to the requirements, version 3.5 is required for full funct...
about 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Planned for future release