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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    IBM Defender Alert Notifications limitation with 20 objects in an Email

    our backup failure alerts are being turned into incidents based on the Defender notification email settings. Ideally, each server failure within a protection group should generate a separate incident in ServiceNow. However, it appears Defender’s a...
    8 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Storage Connecton with certificate

    Currently the connection to Storage System is based on user+password credential; it is advisable to have the authentication via user+certiificate.
    5 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 3 Future consideration

    Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

    Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
    over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 3 Under review

    Shorten wait time of LEADM/EEADM Operation while LTO-9 Optimization

    Software: Storage Archive LE/EE Condition: when user run format new LTO-9 media, this kicks LTO-9 media optimization, and user use IE slot to import media to Library while optimization. Problem: User must wait LEADM/EEADM operation, such as "show ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 2 Not under consideration

    Oracle dataguard support

    We are changing our environment to separate failure domains across data center. To be safe but nearly synchronous our Oracle database will be (nearly) synchronized by Oracle dataguard based on Oracle ExaCC.To continue the backup solution with the ...
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    Provide a replication status in the dashboard to verify vSnap replication is in sync/running etc.

    A status view is required to identify if vSnap replication is in sync / running / out-of-sync similar to the replication status view in the Operation Center for Spectrum Protect replication.
    over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

    File list limited for 1000 lines using restore node commnad

    Hi team, we are using restore node NODE_NAME /FS FILELIST=FILE:/list_files_in_HEX.txt nametype=HEXadecimal. We are restoring data from NAS node. Customer is using France Diacritics in DIR and File names which impact filler on NAS side. Filler is u...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

    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.
    about 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

    CTDB Enhancement 50/5000 to ensure an uninterrupted upgrade to new Release levels

    The problem with the SMB upgrade is with the data shared between the protocol nodes. It is not tied to the protocol version used between SMB clients and the protocol nodes. Samba stores internal data (e.g. for the SMB state of open files) in tdb d...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

    Add TS7700 stats to the IBM Storage Insights GUI Panels

    Add TS7700 stats to the IBM Storage Insights GUI Panels
    3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Planned for future release

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