IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Storage Protect Family

    Enhanced Security and Usability for Trace Files

    We would like to propose the following two enhancements for trace files generated by IBM Storage Protect. 1. Option to Exclude File Names from Trace Files The names of files being backed up may contain information from which confidential or privac...
    3 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Submitted

    Make IP:Port binding possible

    In a split client and administrative network, Storage Protect server listens on all interfaces and IP addresses. Ideally, TCPPort would listen on the client network and TCPAdminPort only the administrative network, using IP:Port binding or NIC:Por...
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Make propagating replication server details to clients (dsm.sys) optional

    We want our replication servers to remain hidden, in case of a failover restore from a replication server we can easily add these details ourselves. Currently, in case a host is compromised, a hacker can easily see that replication servers are als...
    17 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted
    118 VOTE

    Enabling parallel I/O when migrating date from file-pool to tape-pool due to synchronous sequential write

    With a traditional Storage Protect implementation with backup to file-pool the migragtion from file-pool to tape-pool is limited on disk latency to reach optimized a high throuhgput on tape. For an example with a disc latency of 2ms you can reach ...
    6 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Replicate Retention Set and Retention Rule metadata to the target Storage Protect server during replication.

    Currently, IBM Storage Protect replication transfers backup data to the target server, but Retention Set and Retention Rule information is not replicated. In a disaster recovery scenario where the source server is unavailable, administrators may n...
    15 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    API integration with Qumulo Storage

    API integration with Qumulo Storage without the use of tree walk
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Enable NDMP NAS Restore to Alternate Filer Without Modifying Production Datamover Configuration

    Background / Context The customer currently, restoring NDMP NAS backups to an alternate NetApp filer requires modifying the production datamover configuration (IP address and drive path). As documented in the IBM technote: https://www.ibm.com/supp...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Submitted

    Including New Generation Flashsystem in IBM Storage Protect server Blueprints

    The existing IBM Storage Protect Server Blueprints reference and provide validation results for IBM FlashSystem 5015, 5035, and 5200 models only. However, newer IBM FlashSystem platforms such as FlashSystem 5600, 7600, and other current-generation...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection

    One of our customers backs up their Microsoft SQL Server environments using IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments Application Protection. Unfortunately, Microsoft SQL Server 2025 is not supported by the current ISP for VE version 8.2.2 with...
    2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Submitted

    Please add support for VMware Tanzu

    We kindly ask you to Officially support VMware Tanzu Provide exclusion capabilities for unsupported resource types like Tanzu namespaces (When you add a vCenter Server instance to IBM Storage Protect the product performs an automatic inventory of ...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Submitted

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