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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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Tivoli Monitoring for TSM

We have ITM6 monitoring agent for TSM installed on TSM server to test TSM monitoring scenario but agent have not much features as per the customer requirements, and we need help to get those features, view with this agent. I had open PMR 13425, L6...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data (SYS4039)

Eliminate the possibility of unintentionally deleting data
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

TSM Scheduler Update (SYS4331)

The Best Practice for TSM server environments is to include Full backups on a periodic basis. With the efficiency of the incremental Forever strategy of TSM, there comes a side effect that can become a road block to achieving a timely RTO. This is...
almost 14 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

[Copy] Glacier on TSM - IBM Spectrum Protect

Data restoration from Glacier using TSM Client manager.
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

[Copy] Spectrum protect support for AWS Glacier

we are using Spectrum protect 7.1.7 version to backup data to AWS S3. Our customer wants to move less frequently accessed data to Glacier to reduce cost. The AWS SLP feature can be used to achieve this but the current version of Spectrum protect d...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

[Copy] Add LTFS EE support to Ceph based Distributed File System

A lot of cold data in Ceph based DFS need to migrate to Tape. The existing solution is backup/archive with backup software or put data via S3 interface to S3 based deep archive solution which is very complicated,no automation and no competitive pr...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

[Copy] CES-S3 Glacier Support for Spectrum Archive managed Scale Cluster

Enhancement of using our implemented solution on base of ESS, Storage Scale and Storage Archive environments.
3 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

To enable SSL to transitional for nodes automatically without human intervention

We are often facing backup failure due to SSL connection failure which needs to be updated manually from SP servers As we have only client support, we are fully dependent on SP Server team, due to that process, backup is impacting we need a soluti...
5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

[Copy] Lack of integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

Lack of an integration between IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management (CDM) using Pure Storage. Lack of this functionality is a major road block to deploy/adoption a supported combination of Pure, CDM and SP solution.
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

Powering a node on remotely

Sometimes we need to power off a node for testing purposes and we have no option to power the same node on after we are done with the testing..
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration