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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    Eliminate divisive language from your products

    We're almost 1/4th of the way into the 21st century ... no IBM product should use terms like master/slave, blacklist/whitelist, etc.
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 1 Under review

    Provide vCenter Plugin for Spectrum Protect Plus

    ISPP is completely missing a vCenter plugin like ISP for VE. This is usually used by VMWare administrators and VM users to trigger ad hoc backups and restores by themselves. As ISPP is missing this plugin, this is not possible when moving from ISP...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Add "IBM Ransomware Threat Detection (RTD) Patches" in the Resources pages of Storage Insights

    I don't just want to be able to see the code level on the storage, or whether it has ransomware threat detection. I want to be able to see the ransom threat detection code level on the clusters. If something needs to be updated, I want to know.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Support for KVM

    We see more and more activity where people are leaving VMware for something that are better and cheaper. So we see more offend companies that want to replace VMware with KVM/oVirt so they can combine it with Openstack or similar automated hypervisor.
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Missing informational event for rear door open status

    While rear door open, inventory option for service magazine scan is not available. From customer point library functionality is limited, an informational event will help and provide correct hint. Within REST Get frame, we cover rear door status. A...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Enable the capability of having minimum 2 or more versions of LTO Drives & Media in the one Diamondback Tape library.

    At the initial launch, the DiamondBack Tape Library was designed to have one Drive Type - LTO9 - as LTO8 was neither certified nor tested. However, expectation is to maintain a tape library for a dozen years or more - this ticks the sustainability...
    4 months ago in IBM Diamondback Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

    TDP SQL GUI more efficient for search restore point in allwaysOn cluster

    Configuration: AlwaysOn DB configured on TDP for database SQL with 11 instances (Active/Inactive) with more than 70 SQL databases with MMC. Problem: When selectively restoring inactive data for a particular database, it takes a long time, up to 45...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

    Allow editable threshold settings and client and/or type of client exceptions for security notifications

    Please make the thresholds for Operations Center Security notifications an editable setting. We have hundreds of security notifications daily that are not being reviewed since we can't manage them. Also many are API clients, which would typically ...
    over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 3 Future consideration

    Spectrum Protect Plus Backup Direct to Tape

    Need the ability for clients to leverage existing infrastructure such as tape libraries they have bought and allow Spectrum Protect Plus to offload directly to tape.
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    consolidated ticket overview

    In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

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