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

    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

    Ability to set timeout value for importing volume group and file system mount operation within a properties file on the CDM server.

    Currently the system lacks this capability, and our environment has on occasion situations that prevent these operations from completing before the hard-coded timeout expires. The ability to tune the time out will prevent the process from failing ...
    28 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Ability to set an alternate directory for the creation of EPIC, iris.cpf file, within a properties file on the CDM server.

    This ability will help us make better use of the CDM product and avoid failing or long running jobs.
    28 days ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Disallow a CDM job to run if the same job is running.

    The current CDM job for scanning will import disks/volume groups to an IBM AIX server, create NFS exports, NFS mount the jobs to the Linux Sentinel server and then run the IE scan on the mounted NFS disks. Once the scan is complete, the CDM proces...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    Fail job when cleanup fails

    Currently a CDM job will import file systems, scan for threats, and then remove the file systems. However, if the cleanup (removing file systems, removing volume groups/disks/etc.) fails, the CDM web site shows the overall job as a success. This c...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Copy Data Management 0 Submitted

    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...
    3 months ago in Storage Copy Data Management 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

    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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