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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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TSM Space Management IPv6 support

SONAS is a strategic product for our customer. Customer has a need to install IPv6. So SONAS will support IPv6 in the near future all the involved components must support IPv6. One of these components is TSM Space Management. Therefore TSM Space M...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Domino 32bit Support on 64bit Windows

TSM Support for TSM server 6.3/6.4 Windows and TSM for Mail (Domino) : Support for Domino 32 bit on 64bit Windows (2008/2008R2)(Last listet for TDP Mail version 5.5.2)
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

KeepAlive Option with TSM Client

Introduction of a keepalive functionality, e.g. by means of an adjustable parameter depending on timeout values set by firewall between client and server
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Request for 64Bit HSM Client Package for AIX System

We have installed 64Bit BAClient 6.2.2.0 in all AIX clients. There is a customer requirement to deploy HSM on 1000+ AIX Client.As per the PMR support we have downloaded the HSM pacakage CZGL7ML.tar.gz from passport advantage site. We tried to extr...
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 2 Not under consideration

Problem on mapping multiple CIFS shares to perform snapdiff backups on a windows host

I have TSM 6.2 server running on Windows 2008 64bit and TSM 6.3 Client runing on VM (Windows 2008) for snapdiff backups
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

How to check last successful backup update on filespaces in TSM server for schedule running on sanpdiff

How to check the filespaces on node is updated with last successful backup date, when a node is associated with snapdiff backup schedule
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Not under consideration

UEFI support for TSM Fastback BMR

BMR recovery for servers using UEFI. The current work around is complex and is not meeting customer SLA. IBM and other competitors are using UEFI on all new server hardware.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for BMR 2 Not under consideration

Recovery Agent - Instant Restore - GPT Support

Recovery Agent currently supports only MBR disks for direct mount and instant restore. GPT disks should be supported as well, especially for instant restore. Direct GPT mount would be nice to have (no iSCSI).
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection

TSM for VE Using VMware Resource Pools for backup selection. vCloud director creates resource pools for each "org" or client/LOB. vCloud places the vCloud managed VM's in those resource pools.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Planned for future release

An "estimator" on how much space would be returned by performing the TSM DB table space conversions.

An "estimator" on how much space would be returned by performing the TSM DB table space conversions. This would allow customers to determine the value of taking the outage to complete the activity.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration