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...
    about 9 hours ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Submitted

    show UID's in lsvdiskanalysis output

    lsvdiskanalysis currently only shows volume names so it would be a good addition when checking volumes
    1 day ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Client suggest that we build a utility that can do a health check on the network connection between two partnered systems and report back if any necessary ports are open and correct certificate is in use. Vasiliy indicated that there is such a utility used by GPFS.

    Clients setting up partnerships or troubleshooting connection errors after changes are made to the networks.
    2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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.
    2 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Status Code indicating when Cloud Quota Exceeded instead of generic TCT10D=Object storage server error

    The HTTP/1.1 502 with STATUS CODE: TCT10D=Object storage server error did not provide a quick explanation when the Cloud quota was reached. It would be desirable when the Cloud Quota is reached that a message indicating the problem would be provided.
    3 days ago in IBM DS8000 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...
    3 days ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Submitted

    Quantum safe Storage Virtualize

    Even FCM is quantum safe, hardware is not complete storage. When connecting StorageVirtualize v9.1.1 ssh server, it shows that it is using OpenSSH v8.7. (it might be that older SV versions have even older OpenSSH, didn't check.) Open SSH latest ve...
    4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Link-Redundant Cloud connections via Network Isolation ports

    Customers use dual ethernet switch infrastructure and want to be resilient from adapter/SFP/cable/switch failure or their maintenance activites
    5 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Submitted

    Data Protection for Mail compatibility with HCL Domino 14.5

    Domino released version 14.5 on June 17, 2025. As of today DP for Domino supports HCL Domino 14.0.x, but not 14.5.
    7 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Submitted

    IBM Storage Insights - Support for TLS 1.3

    Currently the highest version of TLS supported is TLS 1.2 only. This is to request TLS 1.3 support for the collector. Disabling the collection of metadata for devices that use TLS 1.0 or 1.1 - IBM Documentation only mentions TLS1.2 which will be u...
    7 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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