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TS7700 - Single Sign ON (SSO) with OIDC

Add SSO support via OIDC to externalize authentication and enable multi factor authentication on the VTS HMC and TSSC
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

Please add error in event log when offsite reclaim (at copy export operation) is being stopped in case of a logical volume residing on an inaccessible physical primary volume

We are doing copy export operation for safeguarded tape on a copy export only dedicated cluster. We had two times the problem, that a physical primary volume was inaccessible, which contained logical volumes that were needed for offsite reclaim op...
3 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Password Policies for TS7700 MI/GUI for local user accounts like the TS4500 GUI/MI password policy setting

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the Requirement to use secure Passwords with certain Criteria of Length and Characters contained in the Password. To ensure that every TS7700 User Account meets these Requirements, we need a Passwo...
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration

TS7700 (TSSC) - Dual Control for operational activities

Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the TS7700 TSSC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks as already implemented on the TS7700 HMC
6 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

TS7700 - Secure Data Transfer (SDT) TLS1.3 support

SDT shall support TLS1.3 and be brought to a crypto agile implementation to be able to quickly adopt and change ciphers when need arises based on upcoming quantum threads and IBMs overall approach for cryptographic agility. Currently only TLS1.2 i...
9 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Planned for future release

MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of TS7700. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 2 Future consideration

Secure Passwords for TS7700 MI/GUI with local user accounts: longer passwords and also special characters

Because of increasing Security Standards, we have the requirement to use Passwords with a Length of 21 Characters for administrative Accounts. Also we have to use Special characters, in addition to numeric and alphanumeric characters for higher Pa...
11 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Citibank: Add 2 more EKMs entries on the data at rest page on the MI so that we can add 2 IP’s and Ports for SKLM and 2 IP’s and Ports for GKLM (Different Key Servers for Tape and Disk)

CITI is planning to leverage external encryption for their TS7700 systems as part of their long-term data security strategy. Currently, the Management Interface (MI) on TS7700 only allows for the configuration of a single set of IP addresses and p...
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Under review

For TS7700 Clusters dedicated only for Copy Export operation, replace primary Pool through Grid-Pool

Lower Costs, Higher Performance
4 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the web MI to allow configuring the NTP server DNS, rather than a single native IP, inaccessible to the customer.

We are required to limit risk by using internal trusted NTP server DNS names which load balance to a number of NTP servers. The current 5.4.2 level doesn't allow the customer to view the NTP address let alone modify it. It is also limited to a sin...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Future consideration