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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    Allowing multiple node to store data

    Hello! Since we are using SPVE to back up our VMware servers, all of the VMs are backed up into a single node on the Storage Prottect Server. For an extra layer of security, we've enabled the node replication on this node to send the data to AWS u...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Under review

    Opject Agent support for AIX

    Text from following link:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.7/srv.admin/t_object_agent_client_aix.html An IBM Spectrum Protect object agent cannot run directly on an IBM AIX operating system. However, you can offload IBM Spectr...
    almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

    Abort of STGRule ActionType=Copy if no MountPoint is available

    Starting a Storage Rule with ActionType COPY and no Tape MountPoints are available the transaction is aborted by the server.
    almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Improve disk to tape data migration by allowing multiple threads to read data from disk in parallel

    Spectrum Protect (SP) server data migration performance from disk to tape is limited by the data throughput reading data from disk. In this situation the SP server was reading data from disk (flash) with about 90MB/sec.The SP server internal instr...
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Future consideration

    Improve LTO9 Optimization Process

    The (wizard) process to OPTIMIZE LTO 9 Media is a painful long process that does not allow the library or drives not involved in the optimization to be used. We would like to see an improvement not only in the time it takes to optimize the media (...
    over 1 year ago in IBM TS4300 Tape Library 10 Not under consideration

    Enable Web Proxy for DMS agent communication to IBM Cloud

    Build in a option to configure the use of a web proxy to enable the DMS agent for Storage Protect to communicate with the IBM Cloud for Storage Protect servers that do not/cannot have direct access to the internet and require a web proxy for inter...
    over 1 year ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 Needs more information

    Provide a changelog for Scale releases

    Please provide a changelog identifying the APARs fixed in a Scale Mod, Release, or Version change
    over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

    Force Cancel Sessions and Processes

    We need to be able to force cancel sessions and processes on the TSM server. This is a must have.
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    Containerized AFM node

    We would like to have a containerized AFM node as an option in Fusion. Also, what type of encryption would be used in storage?
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 2 Needs more information

    AWS EC2 Snapshot replication and copy

    Allow an AWS EC2 snapshot to be ingested by SPP's repository and the ability of creating other copies, using replication and copy/offload features.
    about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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