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IBM DS8000

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Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DS8K - Multiple local user support when AD/LDAP is configured

In DS8K - post configuration of AD/LDAP, it allows only one user in addition to LDAP users. Since we have local users created for different purposes (for e.g. CSM replication user, Spectrum Controller user, Monitoring tool integration users, Servi...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Implementation of AOS Control via Ansible

As per security requirement AOS must be closed and should only be opened when there is a reason for it. Like IBM Support working on machines or in case of any defects. In these cases, the control center gets involved and sometimes people who are n...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DS8K - Single Sign ON (SSO) with OIDC

Add SSO support via OIDC to externalize authentication and enable multi factor authentication on the DS8K HMC
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

Create a REST API for the DS8910 to Discard/Delete acquired Token

Currently there is no way to logout from a REST API session on the DS8910. This leaves authorization tokens until the expiration period expires enabling them to be used subsequently by another process or user. This will tighten the REST API securi...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Add clip functionality to ZCPYS / CSM

Add functionality to ZCPYS and/or CSM to enable the clip of the VSN prefix on any flashcopy session. For example - we take a FlashCopy of a system with a VSN prefix of VA. Use ZCPYS to change the VSN prefix on the Flash Copy session from VA to VQ ...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Encryption on Metro/Global Mirror Link (FCP/PPRC)

It is currently an audit exposure if data is encrypted only at a rest. Clients are required to encrypt data in all physical media where the data transits and is stored, from the CPU to disk, and also from primary copy to all other copies where it ...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Allow for the concurrent creation/existence of several recovery sets from a given set of SGC captures

Our use case: a daily backup to tape of SGC restores for our 4 production environments. The largest one takes 10 hours to background copy before we can create another restore which is longer than the time to backup to tape without the background c...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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