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    Allow Dynamic loading of TLS Certificates - do not require a halt and restart to take effect

    TLS Cert standards are shortening their max ttl. After March 15th 2026, the max TTL for a TLS Cert is 199 days. This will shorten to 100 days on March 15th, 2027 and to 47 days after March 15th, 2029.Other software has Dynamic Certificate Manageme...
    5 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Comment Run External Script Action

    in a CSM task may be many run external scripts commands and currently the only action description is generated automatically as being "Run an external command on server xx.xx.xx.xx". This is not enough to understand what does exactly each run exte...
    4 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Import the data from tape and sequential volumes, written from other IBM Storage Protect servers

    Why is it useful? This feature will help with restoring/retrieving data from the tapes, which may have expired in database and also if the tapes are owned/written by other SP server. Who will benefit from it? This feature will help in DR tests, wh...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Automated ODD generation in CSM, along with periodic cleanup based on a retention policy to prevent storage overrun

    Background: I recently met with the Storage Infrastructure Head of a large Indian bank. During the discussion, the customer specifically asked whether DS8000 supports automatic ODD generation based on predefined thresholds or triggers at the time ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Snapshots in IBM Copy Services Manager for SV Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability

    Please add native support in IBM Copy Services Manager to create safeguarded snapshots for Storage Virtualize Volume Groups replicated via Policy‑Based High Availability. Thank you for considering this enhancement! Virgil Balan Storage Administrat...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Copy Automation for Data Validation, IPL, Data Validation and Customer Notification

    I would like to see automation added to CSM to move a SGC backup to Recovery volumes and then trigger an IPL for the Data Validation process that is vital to Ransomware protection. I also want CSM to monitor all of the started tasks from the IPL t...
    13 days ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    A higher level of algorithm customization is required for adding (or removing) commands for SP "command approval" requests.

    In the current version, it is only possible to enable or disable multiple confirmation of changes in the SP server via a list of commands defined by IBM development. It is not possible to select, remove, or add commands that are important to the c...
    5 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Update Storage Protect server to avoid using the S3:ListAllMyBuckets AWS Java SDK call

    Current version of Storage Protect server uses V1 of AWS SDK for Java library, the libary invokes ListAllMyBuckets function (SP server validate cloud operation),ListAllMyBuckets violates the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) and raises security ...
    13 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Support incremental data transfer to cloud archive target (not require full retention set).

    Currently, the only way to send data to a cloud archive target (S3 Glacier, IBM Cloud archive or accelerated archive) is to create a retention pool and then send a retention set. When using the cloud archive target, the retention set is always a f...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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