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"Certificate Signing Request" with custom CN and secure enough RSA key (>=4096 bit)

So far only 2048 bit RSA key is supported which does not go well with our security guideline. We furthermore need to be able to set/add a custom CN for the certificate signing. It would also be fine, to import our own certificates, as possible wit...
6 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

TS7700 support of IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security

The DS8900 series storage currently supports IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security. However, the TS7700 does not support IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security, creating a compliance gap. To achieve full end-to-end encryption of FICON traffic, TS7700 s...
6 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Allow manual input of Storage Insights Tenant ID in system setup wizard (FS9600 9.1.2.1)

Current implementation of FS9600 system setup wizard (9.1.2.1) requires internet access for the browser, apparently only for retrieving the customer's Storage Insight Tenant ID to be used in the subsequent underlying "chcloudcallhome -sitenantid x...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Enhancement of Centreon Flashsystem Connector

Centreon offers Onprem infrastructure monitoring. It benefits of a very old Stowize connector. It collects only basic metrics but nothing about ransomware or datareduction by example. https://docs.centreon.com/pp/integrations/plugin-packs/procedur...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

TS7: DELEXP Count Max

The client expires more tape during the daily expiration process. The current max of 5000 can not keep up and they are having to add scratch tapes. We are looking for the ability to increase that number from 5000 to potentially 8000 to 10000 volumes.
7 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Add Samba CES support for delete veto files

This issue was reported by users of IBM Global Storage Architecture (GSA / GSA2). On a Windows system with a samba mapped drive when deleting a directory that contains a symlink that was created on a unix system; Windows is removing the linked fil...
8 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

Implement RWF_SYNC/RWF_DSYNC flag support in SCALE's pwritev2 syscall handler.

Recommendation for implementation (IBM should implement): 1. Add IOCB_SYNC/IOCB_DSYNC Handling in gpfs_f_write_iter() int gpfs_f_write_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter) { ssize_t ret; // Current code: just writes, ignores flags ret =...
10 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

allow tape device driver to support more than 1024 tape devices, specifically for ts7785

Customers want the ability to have more than 2 paths to virtual tape devices. Since TS7785 supports 512 drives or more, having more than 2 paths means the total number of tape devices that show up exceeds the current limit of 1024. Since clustered...
11 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Submitted

Enable migration of encryption protocol from IPP to KMIP in order to facilitate migration to HashiCorp Vault

Customer would like to centralize all of their Secret Management Keys into HashiCorp Vault. Currently they have DS8910 and DS8A10 environments that use GKLM (SKLM) through the IPP protocol. We want to configure their DS8910 and DS8A10 systems to u...
11 days ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Add Quiet mode in mmdsh to suppress ssh banner message

when using mmdsh and running cluster level cmds, ssh banner messages are interfering in the outputs which is making mmdsh outputs difficult to read. need a ssh -q equalent in mmdsh to supress these banner messages which are sometime as big as half...
12 days ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) Submitted

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