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This would be really beneficial for meeting other requirements like GDPR, health care data protection.
E.g. would it be possible to map IP addresses collected to a 10. range and write the mapping information to a file that is not transferred to IBM? IBM could analyze the data. If the IP address is important to solve the issue, the client could look into the mapping table.
Same would be required for MAC addresses, directory listing (non default directories), file names, content of passwd, etc.
This would solve many of the issues we are facing today because cleaning an existing dump does not work.
Yes it's quite difficult to define "Confidential" and "Customer Data" in the first place. The approach to give the user a config file where he can define which snap/dump data gets zipped for further investigation would help a lot, as it's nothing that the vendor can and should decide. The customer (we) are the ones who can and should decide what information can be passed along. Examples od data that would need to be configurable: Users, IP,hosts,network,binary dumps(Memory by user space if possible).
I think before we can talk about if/how/when we can do this, we need to understand more about what exactly we want have here. The following questions need answers:
-- What exactly will be the definition of "confidential" or "customer data"?
-- Who is going to decide that? Should IBM provide some sort of configuration file where the system admin goes and says: this and this is confidential data.
-- Now dump contains the memory pages of programs running on the system which can also come under this "confidential" category. So if there is an issue with that program itself which needs the program data to be debugged, still should dump capture it or not?
-- Whatever dump captures as of now, all are important data and can become crucial for a particular issue to be debugged. The problem is, one cannot know which data is important from a particular issue point of view before starting to actually debug. So if it turns out that dump is missing some required data due to "confidentiality" feature, will that be acceptable?