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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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My ideas: IBM DS8000

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MFA support with IBM Verify

Dear Development and Product Management team, Please, I would like to suggest an enhancement to the MFA feature of DS8000. Some of IBM customers are adopting an IBM solution to implement MFA called IBM Verify, that offer significantly benefits com...
9 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Provide last login time / date via DSCLI lookup

This is a requirement for audit purposes to be able to provide a list of users with last login date via a feed from the DSCLI. Currently you can get this information via the GUI but we can't get it via the DSCLI commands which is a requirement in ...
9 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Call home Support Report

When you go to call home cloud facility to view the z Machine and we have the report tab to see the channel & Adapters but I could not able to see the DS8k. if you have create like z Machine then it would be helpful. Kindly find the attached d...
8 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

DS8k - WWPN/WWNN for Fibre channel Ports

According to the PLOGI (Port Login) and PRLI (Process Login) are used to establish connections between devices in a SAN (Storage Area Network).That means source and target WWNPN/WWNN are known. However, the details for the logged in links is only ...
16 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted

Improve cancellation method of HSM TCT request when HyperSwap is attempted from HOST perspective

When HSM TCT requests get hung due to faulty network configuration, etc, ANTMAIN holds enqueue on PLANNED.HSWAP.plexname resource which causes planned hyperswap to fail unless ANTMAIN tasks are canceled. Request to improve cancellation method of P...
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Submitted