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IBM DS8000

Enable multiple local user accounts alongside LDAP authentication on DS8000 (hybrid model)

Currently, DS8000 only allows a single local Administrator account as a fallback on LDAP. While this is useful for recovery, it is not sufficient for real production use. In practice, customers rely on several technical and service accounts to ope...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

cipher suites with DS8A050

Customer FINANZ_INFORMATIK has to undergo an official PCI DSS Compliance audit and needs an answer to questions, as listed below, for the following IBM DS8A50 systems: IBM DS8A50 78NWM50 (H20) ? IPs: 17.247.12.107 / 17.247.12.108IBM DS8A50 78NWV70...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

Allow for the update of CSM versions without using DSCLI interface.

Many clients use the DSCLI version built into the HMC GUI. Currently if you would like to upgrade the version of CSM you are required to install the DS8KDSCLI on a third server to facilitate the upgrade. This defeats part of the reason of using th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

The embedded DSCLI should support the key management commands.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

LDAP information included in storage summary report

In the current output for the DS8000 storage summary report, there are a lot of configuration items included with it. Noticeably absent is the inclusion of LDAP information including whether LDAP is enabled, which server is being used, and whether...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

DS8000 needs to allow customer access to detailed debugging logs for cloud related activities.

Currently network activity and error states between the DS8000 and cloud porividers, and also between DS8000 and z/OS, is not available to view. The only log available is the audit log which does not provide detail on how the DS8000 preceives or h...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

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