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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    Allow Backup-Archive Client on Windows 11 Environment with Cloud Only (Azure) users

    As stated from IBM Support, Azure Users are not supported: Currently, the Spectrum Protect (TSM) Backup-Archive Client fails to run on Windows 11 if the cloud only user (Azure) is not a local administrator, even when added to the "Backup Operators...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    IBM Defender Sentinel - Sensor for Storage Scale / GPFS filesystems

    We have a lot of customers with GPFS where we can see to sell Sentinel, but we need a support of filesystem agent. GPFS has safe guarded snapshots and policy engine, so it would be fine to use those features to implement security scans.
    3 months ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Submitted

    Integrate cascaded archive and cascaded replication configuration panelts into IBM DMS GUI

    I am referring to this feature called cascaded replication and cascaded archive. Link: https://docs.cohesity.com/7_2_2/Web/UserGuide/Content/Concepts/CascadedReplication.htm?Highlight=cascaded The feature is currently an Early Access Feature but o...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Data Management Service (DMS) 0 Submitted

    change the default data collection behavior of gpfs.snap utility

    the default behavior of gpfs.snap is set to collect afm recovery data to include in the snap archive uploaded to IBM, Please create a switch in the gpfs. snap utililty to give the ability to exclude this afm data as this is financial data that may...
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Enhance mmchfileset like commands to move from dependent to independent or vice versa

    Clients would like to convert to different types of filesets.
    4 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Support for Diamondback 2drives configuration for PoC

    Since price can sometimes be a barrier for our clients when purchasing PoC environment, we would like to have a system that allows for a 2drives configuration only for PoC.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    SCDM GUI extension request (update of group marked jobs)

    It is not possible to set grouped BACKUP jobs as "Hold Schedule" and "Unhold Schedule". Same for grouped selections for Delete request.It is only possible to do this sequentially according to the selected individual jobs, which is incredibly time ...
    8 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Add an expiration date when using DECOMMISSION VM or DECOMMISSION NODE

    Hello! Having the possibility to enter a date (not mandatory) when decomissioning a vm or node will be very helpful. Most of my users told me to decommission a VM, but asking to keep its backup for a longer period than the associated management cl...
    12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    SCDM needs to support DASD devices on LinuxONE

    LinuxONE applications like Oracle desire application consistent snapshots. The benefit would be a tables-stakes function of a storage solution to provide data integrity.
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Submitted

    Storage Protect Storage Agent should report all issue to the Storage Protect server activitiy log

    We run into a LANfree backup issue. Diagnosing the issue took a long time because the STA was not reporting the drive failures into the SP server activity log. Environment: SP AIX library manager (LM) server 8.1.21.0, SP server name LIBMGR. SP AIX...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 0 Submitted

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