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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    Improved handling of MCDB-enabled databases by Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server

    Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange Server works as designed in respect to restore scenarios. But there is a challenge with exchange mailbox restores after enabling the Microsoft Exchange MetaCacheDatabase (MCDB) feature that prevents an DP4Exc...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    Get serial number(SN) of Clearn Cartridge from Diamondback RESTAPI

    Alibaba(The largest Internet enterprise in China) plans to purchase a large batch of Diamondback libraries and magnetic tapes to store their code data. Asset management is a core priority. The customer requires full traceability of every purchased...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 0 Future consideration

    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...
    11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Submitted

    Disaster recovery from Storage Protect backup pool for big file systems

    We are running multiple Storage Scale file systems in the multi Petabyte size. All data are in Storage Protect backup. The backup is very valuable in case of user driven data loss. But in the case of a disaster where the complete file system is lo...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Support for vCloud Director

    We have several MSP partners who are installing vCloud director and who are using or plan to use SPP. VMware has published the following document regarding vCloud Backup:Backup Design for vCloud Tenant vAppshttps://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digit...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 5 Future consideration

    TS77 should write SMF as DS8* systems do

    Hi, as everybody else who uses TS7700, we also use BVIR (available within Tape Tools). BVIR makes it possible to get the reports about TS7700 performance, usage, virtual volumes, physical volumes, etc.. Unfortunately, right now we don’t really ...
    about 4 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

    Make IBM Tape boxes able to generate a CSR much like their DASD counterparts

    The IBM Tape boxes (TS7) currently do not allow the generation of a CSR (certificate signing request). This means you have to generate a certificate off of the box and upload both private and public keys. This is a gross misuse of security and I c...
    over 3 years ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 3 Future consideration

    Incorporate Google and MS Authenticators to FlashSystem MFA

    Currently the supported MFAs are Duo and IBM Verify.I received a few requests from customers that do not work with Verify nor Duo, and requested to have the other options as well.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

    customize commandapproval commands

    SP 'set commandapproval' doesn't allow to customize the predefined list of commands. Security needs are different from customer to customer.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Add support for Operations Center in Ubuntu Linux

    As Ubuntu is supported as a Server OS for Storage Protect the OC should also be available. With a minimum of hacking the Operations Center works just fine in Ubuntu Linux.The "hack"install OC using the bypass flag.ksh ./install.sh -c -vmargs -DBYP...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Under review

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