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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...
    10 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    Implement a Master Summary Process for GENERATE DEDUPSTATS Triggered by Storage Rules

    Current Behavior: Currently, when running GENERATE DEDUPSTATS via a Storage Rule (stgrule), the system generates X number of worker processes based on the MAXPROCESS parameter. Each of these individual processes only reports the status and progres...
    4 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    Add Deep Archive appliances to TS4500 with a MES upgrade

    several of my customers already have a TS4500 and could benefit from an S3 frontend, and they like the idea of an appliance where everything is included.I’m aware of the possibilities with Scale + CES S3, etc., but that adds complexity and require...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 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 2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 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

    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

    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 ...
    18 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

    SPS: Enhance restore capability to enable restore to an e.g. empty system.

    As of today, SPS requires that the to-be-restored filesystem exists before the restore can be executed. There are situation a customer wants to restore data (Db2) to an empty system: The System crashed, needed to be reinstalled, therefore the (dat...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    SPS: Add roll back capability if restore fails

    As of today, SPS deletes the File System (FS) and Volume Group (VG) as preparation for the restore. If the restore fails, then the OS (here AIX) is left without the FS.To continue, customer needs to manually recreate the VG and FS, most likely to ...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Submitted

    Deep Archive Integration with Microsoft Entra ID

    IBM Storage Deep Archive software version 1.2.0 does not currently support integration with Microsoft Entra ID for administrative access. This feature would be particularly useful for customers requiring this kind of integration, and would greatly...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 1 Future consideration

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