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

All ideas

Showing 5528

HTTP proxy support for fusion backup to S3

When doing fusion backups to S3, most of the customers are using HTTP proxy with validation to allow access to external sources. Currently this is not supported
10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Allow SP Plus backups to Spectrum Protect server w/o requiring a backup to the vSnap storage first

A backup to Spectrum Protect is not possible w/o doing first a backup to a vSnap. The dependency on vSnap should be removed to allow leveraging the Spectrum Protect server storage hierarchy.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

TS7700 Web Management Interface for IBM BP

Supply to IBM BP a TS7700 WEB MI as a remote tool or demo
about 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

VM File Indexing not available while Configuring VM using NVMe Disk Controller in SPP

While Configuring virtual machine using NVMe Disk Controller from VMware side. VM Backup is successful to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. When using File Restore feature in SPP. File indexing is not available and this is happening because OS's are not ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Change the unit of retention for snapshot from days to hours

I have a client that needs to do more frequent snapshots and retian them for hours instead of days.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Open Spectrum protect S3 agent for use by BRMS (iSeries)

The intent is to open up the S3 Agent for use by entities other than Spectrum Protect Plus. Target for this request is iSeries BRMS which is currently using S3 to send backup data to cloud.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SnapDiff API - NetAPP un-deprecated snapdiff ZAPIs in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases

Let me also give you some background information on SnapDiff APIs. Originally SnapDiff v1/v2 ZAPIs were deprecated in ONTAP 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 but were un-deprecated in both 9.10.1 and 9.11.1 P-patch releases. As long as you are on the most recent ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add SMTP protocol for event

For information security reasons, some companies are unable to connect out the systems to report issues and events. Most IBM Storage and Mainframe systems have an SMTP protocol for sending e-mail alerts but not in TS77700. Can you add this option ?
over 2 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Error handling for failed node replication - ANR1893E and ANR3824W

Since ISP 8.1.14 we always see this error messages in the log - and monitoring system - for node replication, because some files are skipped. The reason for the skipped files is, that database log backups always occur during the replication. This ...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Installation of kubernetes support componentes for ISP Plus from ISP Plus GUI

To install kubernetes backup support for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus access to Kubernetes Cluster node is required on the OS level via ssh.Several steps on the OS level are required to deploy the needed pods into the kubernetes environment.It would ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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.