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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 17, 2022

Add a role with hability to create SGC backups without possibility to expire them

It will improve security of the backup especially when SGC backups are triggered by a ZOS batch job. Without this role, everybody who can run the job can expire the backups and remove them.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 13, 2023
    Delivered in the CSM 6.3.7 release. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7005031
  • Guest
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    Mar 3, 2023

    An "operator" role w/o capability to expire (DS8000) SGC backups and remove them is missing. Only the Administrator role should have this capability. Most customers find CSM dual control too restrictive. They consider that SGC backups are not really immutable as soon as an administrator having an Automation or an Operator role can delete them.