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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    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

    Enable custom certificates for Storage Scale CNSA GUI on OpenShift

    We have to secure all Web GUIs with custom certificates from our In House CA. In detail we need the ibm-spectrum-scale-gui route from the ibm-spectrum-scale namespace to be secured by a custom certificate.
    13 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    CNSA Support for Hosted control planes (HCP)

    Hosted control planes (HCP) are becoming more and more popular to consolidate multiple Openshift Cluster. It centralizes the cluster management and add security advantages. As we move towards HCP cluster, it is important to have CNSA supported for...
    about 19 hours ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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

    Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

    IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
    10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot effeciency improvements

    The cesSharedRoot and cnfsSharedRoot requirements made economic sense in the past, before mmvdisk began enforcing a minimum of 4 vdisks per Data Adapter (DA) on SSD-based Recovery Groups (RGs). Currently, in a single ESS Building Block, depending ...
    6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Needs more information

    Support In-Transit Encryption at Filesystem Level for Remote FS

    Current versions of Scale only allows In-transit encryption (ciphers) at cluster level which restricts users from choosing which filesystem to enable in-transit encryption and which filesystem to use authonly mode. A new feature in the future rele...
    18 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    Identify nodes having open files which blocks quiesce file system/filesets

    We had the situation that the unlink fileset command failed: [root@xstm-d07-01 samples]# mmunlinkfileset exa_project1 training2601 -f Unable to quiesce fileset at all nodes. Fileset training2601 has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. mmunlink...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Submitted

    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

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