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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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VDisk Mirror monitoring events

Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Backup of NFS file systems without mounting them.

Currently our customer use IBM Spectrum Protect in their on-premise archiving. They are in their journey to cloud and want to implement an archiving robust solution, so they started to evaluate multiple tools including IBM SP. They are requesting ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Storwize tape target

Ability to enable tape target mode on Storwize.Today, VTL are very common and IBM has discontinued its Protectier solution. Now that Storwize can do compression and deduplication, we could technically add tape target mode code on Storwize and enab...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

TSM4VE separate installation from configuration

During installation of TSM4VE the installer requires information about the vCenter and vCeneter user, including a password. This is not always needed (when not registering a plug-in or extension) and prevents a generic installation that can later ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

SPP Support for IBM Informix

Customer requests support for Informix in SPP. Our Customer is interested in the reuse feature because this is important for their business.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize FlashCopy bitmap with Spectrum Copy Data Management

When using Spectrum Virtualize in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management, if the flashcopy bitmap capacity fills, the Spectrum Virtualize instance will warmstart a node without warning. Spectrum Copy Data Management orchestrates the sc...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

LTO9 drive relative humidity value

LTO9 drive reports snmpt-trap alerts if it's relative humidity value is out of range. This relative humidity value of LTO9 drive should be visible on TS4300 graphical user interface.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Change warning message to information message

In TSM for VE 7.1 the warning message "ANS4063W" is triggering an RC 8 return code on the scheduled event. We would like the warning message changed to an information message instead.
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Allow deletion of csmadmin local ID

The csmadmin local ID comes back after being deleted (post server reboot). It is also not possible to delete this ID. Please allow the customer to delete this ID permanently.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Not under consideration

TSM4VE UI does not support restore VMs multiple

the current TSM4VE Web UI or plugin does not support the parallel / multiple restore of VMs at a time. We are selected 4 VM's for the restoration only one process is started with VM restoration. After completing the 1st VM restoration 2nd VM proce...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration