Defining the new security rules and policies sometimes becomes a challenge.

Integration with other platforms becomes a challenge as well. I'd like to see more integration with other tools and technologies.

XGS 7100 has an end of support for the 30th of December 2022. Many are losing support. All the products of the XGS, including XGS 3100, 4100, 5100, and 7100, support is ending in December 2022. We need to know what is the plan post that? Do we need to spend money on them? Will that be extended? There has been no communication on the website either.

It's an expensive device. 

The features are slightly behind what else is available in the market, which is something that IBM has to improve on. When it comes to benchmarking the latest technology, IBM is a little bit slower in their releases.

In the future, I would like to see a hybrid option so that we can work both on-premises and in the cloud.

The Configuration of this product is complex. It could me made more user friendly.

The management server can be made more user friendly and also the database configuration could be made simpler.