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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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Differential retention of replicated backup data coming from databases like DB2

Submitting on behalf of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee. Customer would like Spectrum Protect and DB2 to cooperate on retention of backup data from databases such that it could be retained at a primary site for a longer amount of time than it ...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Storage System Support for Port-Channel on FC Connections

Need ALL storage devices to support Port-Channeling of Storage ports with Cisco Switches
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Ingress Rate Limiting for Storage Devices on Fibre Channel

Need ALL storage devices to support ingress rate limiting with FC connections.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Execute failed VM backups within schedule

TSM for VE has been deployed as a replacement for other vendors solutions. It is being developed well but some of the core functionality is lacking, for example the ability to re-run failed backups without having to create new adhoc schedules ever...
over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64

support OS kernel for linux 5.10.135.x86_64
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Better handling of fragments during backup storagepool

When copying data to a copy pool, all (or large parts of) the copied data can be rolled back, if some - but not all - fragments of a super-aggregate is among the copied data. This can happen if the backup storagepool process is deliberately stoppe...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign On with OKTA

intergrate with OKTA or other single sign on technology
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem rails incompatible with 3rd party racks

Client / reseller reports issues with installation of current generation of IBM FlashSystem rack-mount rails within non-IBM racks. Previous generation Storwize rails (V3700 was mentioned) fit into the same racks without issue.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

For case TS002612329, we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the TSM/TDPSQL from 1790 to 4000.

491/5000We have a problem with a restore of BD in PMR TS002612329 and we need to increase the character limit of future versions of the "IBM Spectrum Protect for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL Server" product from 1790 to 4000. The a...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 0 Not under consideration