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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM DS8000
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 12, 2018

DS8K's should have authentication policy indicator on logon GUI screen

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's that are in various stages of connection to the systems. It can be very difficult to tell if we need to use our standard LDAP logon or our basic logon for any specific box. This can sometimes result in us being locked out of a box if we are using the wrong credentials. We'd like a way to know the authentication policy currently active for that box. Our preference would be some indicator as to the policy in effect on the initial login screen. This could be something as simple as the name of the policy or the option of a 'welcome text' option in each policy that we could optionally update if we desire.

Idea priority Medium