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Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 2 - Network Configuration & Firewalls & Access Control

Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalise one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Help required for closing discovered vulnerabilities for SSS3500 storage - Group 1 - Filesystem Related Configuration

Our TEL team is working with Customer State Bank of India to operationalize one new SSS 3500 that we sold to customer to replace the existing Gen2 GLS2 SSS Storage. As part of the internal security practices the State Bank of India runs their own ...
7 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Planned for future release

Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) Support

LLDP is a technology used in cloud and automation scenarios which assists with Layer2 link discovery. Its works by broadcasting additional metadata and information about each network link to the network switches allowing for automation to more eas...
11 months ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

include ABRT packages in EMS repos

It is common for support to ask for a core or ABRT report as part of in depth troubleshooting of particularly nasty Scale System component issues. Currently those ABRT packages are not included in the repositories packaged with the EMS node and it...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

Scale System HashiCorp Self Encrypting Drive Support

Add Self Encrypting Drive Support for HashiCorp Vault
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

ESS release note includes OS package list

ESS release note includes OS package list. Currently OS image in ESS package is "cut-down" version in order to reduce its size. Our customer has upgraded legacy ESS to 6.1.2.7 then 6.1.2.8 . Every time, ESS upgrade process is suspended because of ...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Disable Simultaneous sessions of same user on ESS GUI

Same user is able to open multiple sessions on ESS GUI with different browsers /different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user. This is one of the security observations from the customer's security auditor...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Enabling the ESS storage with Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 for storage and processing based on CXL Fabric

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Planned for future release

Requesting that customer system name be included in Call Homes for ESS and IBM Storage products.

It has been noted that ESS Call Home cases (inclusive of other IBM Storage as well) do not have the name of the system in the cases description. We are requesting that this change so that system names are included in the call home for the CSP case...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Add system node name to the description/title of any CSP ticket generated from a call home.

The overall request is to add the system node name of the originating device into the case description whenever a call home occurs that results in a case being opened. From the sample case the customer provided, the case description is “9100 DSK00...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Future consideration