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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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.

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    Extend IBM Storage Copy Data Management to support Safeguarded Snapshot at the Volume Group level, including groups configured with PBHA+DR, PBHA replication policies

    Hello, IBM Storage Copy Data Management currently supports Safeguarded Snapshot only at the individual volume level. For environments where applications span multiple volumes, this limitation increases operational complexity and risk during recove...
    4 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Retention Sets and transitioning to new tape technology.

    Hello,There are customers who need to retain data for more than 10 years. However, a problem arises regarding technology lifecycles, as servers, disk arrays, and tape libraries are typically replaced every 5-10 years.Consequently, the customer fac...
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Aredent Health - Dell Customer - Optimize Masking View Creation by Resolving HostGroups During Restore

    During restore, CDM needs to map LUNs to the hosts. If there are three separate hosts, CDM will create a masking view for each, which means: 2 Storage Groups × 3 Hosts = 6 masking views. But If their hosts are under a parent HostGroup, CDM will re...
    5 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Catalog backup stops DCDM server

    When the SCDM Catalog backup is initiated from the Admin Console,it stops the CDM server. This behavior is unusual and problematic. The SCDM Catalog backup should operate online, without interruptingor stopping the CDM server. Stopping the CDM ser...
    3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    Enhancing DCDM Error Logs with Standardized Error Codes

    In the current implementation of DCDM error logs often contain text messages that describe the issue. However, it is difficult to search for known issues or solutions without a standardized identifier. Also, it is difficult for support engineers t...
    2 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 1 Submitted

    SCDM GUI extension request (update of group marked jobs)

    It is not possible to set grouped BACKUP jobs as "Hold Schedule" and "Unhold Schedule". Same for grouped selections for Delete request.It is only possible to do this sequentially according to the selected individual jobs, which is incredibly time ...
    7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    TSM client & server support for CENTOS

    Please support CENTOS as a platform for TSM server and client. All other major backup tools support CENTOS as a backup client or server architecture. You cannot stay behind. No support means for us undoubtedly abandoning the TSM (SP) platform.
    almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Restore snapshots to a different host.

    Restore snapshots to a different host to be able to do system copies.
    7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Email notifications for jobs

    It should be possible to be notified by email when a job is completed whether it's successful or failing.
    7 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

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