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 Admin Center(tip) needs support for Firefox 6 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support firefox 6 and beyond. It needs to support firefox 6 and beyond for currency in our environment.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 6 Not under consideration

Event log enhancements

Enhanced monitor of internal process and better detail on issues. Lack of reporting on critical internal components hinders determination of issues and recovery.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

BA Client for ARM/ARM64

ARM architecture user base is growing, and ARM servers needs protection too.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

One hot-spare node for multiple SVC clusters

Some of the customers have multiple SVC clusters, but all the nodes are located at the same two sites. It would be a great enhancement if the hot-spare node would not be bound to one specific cluster but could be bound to multiple clusters. With t...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow to expand the size of volumes in a Flashcopy mapping

Currently it is not allowed to expand the size of a volume which is part of a flashcopy mapping. This restriction should be removed.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Glacier on TSM - IBM Spectrum Protect

Data restoration from Glacier using TSM Client manager.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for additional third-party filers

SI has fairly limited support for third-party filers.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Support for TSM USS Client

System: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS USS Client and API (5698-B22)Actor: ITERGO Informationstechnologie TSM B/A is a standard product spreaded over all different kinds of operating systems. For z/OS, TSM USS Client is used to backup and res...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect - Add functionality to the deactivate data command

Expand the deactivate data command to apply to other clients besides Oracle. It is urgently needed for SQL backup clients. The deactivate data command should be expanded to work on SQL, DB2, Informix, and all other API-style backup products.
almost 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

OpenStack backup with Spectrum Protect Plus

Our important customer is asking for remote API backup of OpenStack environment. Preferred support with Spectrum Protect Plus (as the extend container support) but Spectrum Protect API combination could be another variant.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

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