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

    allow network endpoint address to be edited on an external source (S3).

    Currently, once you have defined an external source you can edit several parameters, but the endpoint address (network address/ip) cannot be changed.
    7 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Allow sources, policies, protection groups, etc. to be organized in a manner other than source type.

    Currently, as sources are defined, the way the information is displayed is by the type of source. So, all vSphere, SAN, SQL sources are displayed with the same type. This makes it difficult to find sources in a way meaningful to the operator. Idea...
    28 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 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

    allow a human-friendly label for backup sources

    Currently when defining a source for backup, the name of the source can be rather complex and not user friendly. This will vary depending upon the source type, but in some cases (such as Azure backup workloads), the source name is just a large com...
    about 1 month ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 1 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

    Provide incremental backup capabilities from DDP to S3 Glacier target

    Idea: Enable Defender Data Protect (DDP) to perform incremental backups directly to S3 Glacier-based tape storage targets such as IBM Storage Protect (SP) S3 storage agent and IBM Deep Archive on Diamondback. Business Use Case: While Defender Data...
    6 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Add the option to delete a description previously created

    Add the option to delete a description that was previously created when selecting an alert to resolve, since some descriptions may no longer apply or simply need to be removed. It would be great to also have the ability to delete any description t...
    8 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 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

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