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    add capability to filter for "empty" or "non-empty" fields in ls-command outputs

    The "-filtervalue" parameter allows to filter for particular strings or substrings when using "listing" commands such as lsvdisk, lshost etc. Currently, the "-filtervalue" parameter syntax does not offer the capability to filter for objects that h...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    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...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Remove unecessary QUERY JOB errors from actlog due to running servermon

    When servermon is activated using the parameter ALWAYSONSERVERMON on, the message “ANR0213E QUERY JOB: No jobs found” appears in actlog every 10 minutes. This cannot be disabled, even if you delete or comment out the entry QUERY JOB FORMAT=detail ...
    4 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

    Run csmcli via scheduled task without external server.

    I want to get CSM/DS8000 logs when CSM task failed. Problem here is that the ESSNI logs for both CSM/DS8000 fills up so quickly. We have an option in CSM task to save it which is "Create a PE package if error occurs running the task". This will sa...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    rmsyslogserver should be sent to remote syslog server

    Setting up a remote syslog server to catch notifications from StorV is an important component in any security framework. Likewise it is important to monitor if syslog notifications get unconfigured. As of today, removing the last/only syslog serve...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Allow separation of Fusion Data Foundation service upgrades from general Fusion upgrade

    Allow used to disconnect / separate Fusion Data Foundation upgrades from the general Fusion operator upgrades. Data Foundation must be max N-1 rev from OpenShift, this limitation either prevents and sometimes causes OpenShift upgrades to fail in t...
    4 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Future consideration

    Support modern SSO protocols

    TS4500 only supports LDAP & Kerberos, this request is for integration with SSO using modern protocols such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and/or OIDC.
    4 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Future consideration

    Integration between Defender DRS and IBM Concert

    There is more and more focus on security, there is a need to automatic information gathering for everything that is helpful to manage CVE and Security Certificate (SSL/TLS) . DRS is being connected to different Data sources, from infrastucture com...
    4 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 1 Future consideration

    Better handling of Install Directory Size limitation during CSM upgrade

    When CSM server is upgraded, if CSM identifies that the install library size is more than a value (in case of 6.3.14 it is 17,350MB), it just throws an error message and ends without further indication on what are the resolution possibilities. Her...
    4 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

    TS7700 (TSSC) - Simplify Certificate Management - accept .pfx or .p12 certificate format

    As the TSSC does not support to generate a certificate on the machine itself and only create a sign request. I need to order (from a CA) a certificate that holds the private and public key in a .p12 or .pfx format. However, to upload I have to man...
    5 months ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 0 Future consideration

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