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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Storage Protect Family

Showing 336

Allow for parallel-stream restores, using DP for SAP HANA

In http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZHVN_7.1.3/erp.hana/c_dperp_saphana_planperf.html, the manual states that parallel-session BACKUP and RESTORE is possible in DP for SAP HANA 7.1.3. That is not the case, as discovered in named PMR. B...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 2 Delivered

Snapdifferntial backups for Netapp data on tap cluster mode (c-mode)

Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive ClientNetapp Filer CIFS and NFS share backups.Currently Netapp snapshot functionality can be used by TSM to perform snap differential backups. This is particularly useful for large file systems with millions o...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

TSM in native P7 compatibility mode

We are purchaseing p720 servers as our TSM servers. We want to be able to use POWER7™ in POWER7™ compatibility mode.​​ Currently if using POWER7™ it needs to be in POWER6™ compatibility mode.​​
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Exchange2010 backup & Restore - Morethan one passive databases

Exchange2010 Passive DAG backup, we have 2 copies of passive databases. These are on different hosts so we wind up backing up both copies. This adds to our total occupancy as well as taking up bandwidth of the client.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 3 Delivered

TSM Admin Center(tip) needs support for Internet Explorer 8 and beyond.

TSM Admin Center - tip(tivoli integrated portal) does not support IE8 and beyond. It needs to support IE8 and beyond for currency in our environment.
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 4 Delivered

Operations Center - add activity log details for server maintenance

Customer would like to have the ability to view related Spectrum Protect server activity log records pertaining to server maintenance activities reported in the Operations Center. As of now, the OC reports little more than success/failure.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Delivered

Windows Server 2019 Core

Exchange 2019 is supported on Windows Server 2019 Server Core. We need support for backup/restore on this platform Microsoft is pushing Windows Server 2019 Server Core as the OS of choice for Exchange 2019. On https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/e...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Option to perform manual full backup of VMs

We need an option to override the incremental forever and force a (new) full backup of VMs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Server and Storage agent support for SLES 12 Power (LE)

Currently the only officially supported Protect Server and Storage Agent on Power Linux Little Endian is RedHat. What about the customers with SLES 12 LE ?
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Storage Area Networks (SANs) 1 Delivered

Abiloty to backup Spectrum Protect Database to Cloud

With the movement to cloud based storage, Spectrum protect needs to be able to back up its database to cloud storage to allow local restore of the entire database for DR. This could be required where:1. Customer has single SP server, and no targer...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.