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Implement bucket policies for IBM COS in for Container mode

Integrate bucket policies (similar to AWS S3 bucket policies) into the IBM COS on-premises solution for container mode. Specifically, I am interested in the ability to define fine-grained access control rules at the bucket level.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes Submitted

Customer requesting support of TOTP/SAML

So we will be moving to Ping, the date is still TBD. That said yes that will be of interest to us when we implement Ping.. But the gap on SSH access will still be a concern. As far as other products that do this. Cohesity has pretty extensive supp...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

add unmap enable/disable option to gui

Default for flashsystem is host unmap off, and this feature is invisible to client until they hit 80% capacity or oos an support advise to enable it. We also want to keep clients in the gui, so it might be worth adding this option to the GUI.
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Ability to Trigger Customized Client-Initiated Call Home via DSCLI or API

As a DS8000 user with numerous DS8000s in our environment, we do not currently have an automated method to trigger an IBM Health Check on one or more of our DS8000 systems. Due to security concerns, we do not currently have IBM Storage Insights im...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) Submitted

task-based TPI

The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

More detailed error messages for SP-VE GUI interface

When the VMware SSL cert is changed, SP-VE does not show any specific errors other than a generic network connection error. More detailed errors would be beneficial to SP customers.
2 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments Submitted

mmputacl recursive option enhancement request

Do you have any suggestions how we can do a recursive ACL change efficiently using mmputacl? For directory trees that include millions of files, running mmputacl on each file or directory using a file list generated by, let's say, the find command...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Future consideration

Pool‑Based Virtual Capacity Management for SGC

Eliminate volume‑level virtual capacity limits for SGC and replace them with a shared, pool‑based virtual capacity model. Instead of assigning and managing virtual capacity on a per‑volume basis, all volumes would draw capacity dynamically from a ...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Bulk change volumes

Before 9.1.0.1 you could hold shift to mark multiple hosts with one click and then change many parameters for all of them at the same time. For example, setting an IOPS or bandwidth limit, adding them to volume groups and so on. This feature is no...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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