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    System Hardening, add more security to the s3 interface by allowing to only listen on tcp/443 for the s3 ports and listen on ssh only on Management Ports

    Currently every node of the DeepArchive system listens on every interface for all ports. Therefor ssh is possible on the data interface as s3 glacier is possible on the MGMT interfaces. This is not good for security reasons, because you can separa...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Deep Archive 0 Submitted

    Support CES-S3 accounts without access to creating new buckets

    We want to give access to existing datasets through S3 and NFS, and want a mapping of one NFS share for each S3 bucket. Some S3 accounts should only have readonly access to buckets (through bucket policy), and we don't want them to be able to crea...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Submitted

    Support SSH-less Deployment and Lifecycle Management for IBM Storage Defender DRS Sensors

    Many enterprise and regulated environments prohibit the SSH protocol on production Windows and Linux servers, including temporary access over TCP port 22. The currently documented IBM Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service sensor deployment mode...
    2 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Submitted

    Need to have TSSC security information provide by RESTful API

    For TSSC devices attached to a VTS7700 there is a RESTful endpoint (/tssc/security/ldapAuthPolicies) that provide security details that are needed to provide evidence of compliance with security baselines. This includes information such as TSSC TL...
    2 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Future consideration

    More focus on stretched Scale for DR with Fusion HCI

    I would like Fusion HCI to support data replication performed by Scale: Two separate OpenShift clusters (DR), one/site where stretched (containerized/external) Scale is used for data replication over Ethernet using failure groups.
    10 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Add the ability for a single host to have volumes from partition and local volumes

    Currently a single host definition have the limitation of having volumes from a partition or local, ww need to support a combination of those two, that will enable migration and various other scenarios especially in virtual environments. For examp...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    IBM FUSION DATA FOUNDATION - ROUTE SERVICES

    Banco do Brasil provisioned CP4D using the IBM Fusion Data Foundation essentials that they are entitled. Due to a client policy, it's prohibited to use the default cluster name to route services that are run from the cluster. So, it's required to ...
    5 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

    Enable/Add SSO or SAML to DS8K Authentication Options

    Currently DS8Ks authenticate using local logins, LDAP, or even RACF permissions. It lacks a modern Single Sign-On (SSO) or a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) option, specifically for Entra ID. As enterprises migrate from LDAP or require m...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Real time ransomware detection for IBM Storage Scale file systems and filesets

    IBM Storage Scale environment we need the capability for real-time ransomware detection. We use immutable snapshots for file systems and fileset already. Real-time ransomware detection gives us the ability to determine the last good immutable snap...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

    Request for Enhancement – Detailed Backup Object Metadata in IBM Storage Protect Server

    Description: Currently, the Backup‑Archive Client (dsmc query backup -detail or GUI) displays Last Modified Date, Last Accessed Date, Backup Date, and file attributes of the backup object. However, the IBM Storage Protect server (e.g., BACKUPS tab...
    3 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Submitted

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