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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    TDP ERP for SAP Support for DB2 v10.x Red Hat Linux

    Hello RFE-Team,your newest Version of TDP ERP for SAP DB2 is 6.3.xThis TDP Version has only Toleration Support for AIX for DB2 v10.xWe have Custumers with SAP ERP and DB2 V10.x with Operating Systemm Red Hat Linux 6.xThere have already been severa...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 3 Planned for future release

    rmmdisk should behave the same for internal disks as it does for external disks

    When an external storage mdisk is removed from an mdiskgrp, it becomes an unmanaged mdisk and is available for reassignment to another mdiskgrp. When an internal storage mdisk is removed from an mdiskgrp, the mdisk is deleted, thus requiring a tim...
    about 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Populate the file space information with VM space information

    The current filespace information consists of a capacity and percent utilized. For a VM backup this information is blank. I propose that the capacity correspond to the vcenter reported value Provisioned Storage and the percent utilized be calculat...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    Backup status report scope

    There is a pulldown on the Backup Status report in the vCenter plug-in that allows the user to select a Datacenter for the scope of the report.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    API support for backups of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

    Customers are asking if TSM will support the API for processing backups in the RHEV environment... "Red Hat is already collaborating with several industry leaders to integrate their solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization via the new plug...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

    inode number limit

    Need to restrict the inode number to be lower than 2^32 . If its greater than that, 32 bit applications are failing complaining file not found.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Replace DEFAULT with actual management class name in reporting.

    The default management class is always shown as DEFAULT in SELECT * from BACKUPS reports rather than the actual class name which would be more useful in determining what the retention periods are for a given set of backup files, whereas with defau...
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Not under consideration

    SPS Support for A9000 Multisite Configuration

    Client is using a multi-site configuration in their A9000's where they are hyperswapped in prod and async replicating to DR. They need support for this configuration within Spectrum Protect Snapshot for snapshot management.
    over 6 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

    Support TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 when using Firefox browser versions newer than 3.0, 3.5, or 3.6.

    The browser requirements for TSM Administration Center Version 6.3 are Firefox 3.0, 3.5, and 3.6. The current Firefox version is 22. The Admin Center should use Firefox version 3.6 or later.
    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Not under consideration

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    about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

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