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IBM DS8000

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    If an SSID participating in a PPRC relationship needs to be changed, DSGUI/DSCLI should provide a warning when attempting a chlcu for an LCU participating in a PPRC relationship.

    We encountered a hardware error starting a GM session where we had duplicate SSIDs between the source and target PPRC LSSs. To resolve this, we used the GUI to change the SSID on the target LSS. Although the change was successful it would have bee...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

    Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Need for support the combination of AIX 7.2 TL5SP4 and DSCLI in a Japanese language environment.

    After updating AIX7.2 TL1SP2 to AIX7.2 TL5SP4, DSCLI doesn't display Japanese characters (Shift JIS, IBM-943) correctly. Support personnel explain that it is known as a limitation of S-JIS and advised to use English or UTF-8 instead of S-JIS. Howe...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

    Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

    The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
    about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Implementing other message codes for SNMP trap 221

    The client configuration is using DS8900 with Safe Guarded Copy At the moment when they see an SNMP trap trigger for trap 221 they only receive Message Code 10, which is telling them it's already removing space. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Installation DSCLI via Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)

    In the past we used DSCLI on Windows. In this environment we got informations about the software itself and security vulnerabilities automatically via a software management tool. If there was a breach or new version we got automatically informed. ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Provide support on DS8910F for DADSM UNMAP function in Copy Services relationships to allow use of Erase on Scratch on z/OS without unacceptable overhead

    Our DASD environment is all-flash DS8910F, mirrored across a distance of approx 25km. In order to satisfy audit requirements, we recently enabled Erase On Scratch via RACF (SETROPS ERASE (ALL)). Unfortunately this created an unacceptable overhead ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    Upgrading DS8000 to Data Aware Contents Storage and suggesting new series either DS9000 or DS 10000,

    Upgrading DS8000 to Data Aware Contents Storage and suggesting new series either DS9000 or DS 10000, We are in the Era of Agentic Generative AI, using LLMs and RAGs, Although IBM is the inventor of IBM Fusion Content Aware Storage CAS , but we nee...
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Daily System Check using Ansible

    In an effort to automate our DS8k-environment with Ansible we are looking into automating our daily system check where we see if there is any physical drives in a failed status. The current process is done via DSCLI and generates a report manually...
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Add Transparent Cloud Tiering configuration and testing into the GUI or WUI

    Adding a TCT screen to the GUI could include features such as: Provide customer visible indicator of which TCT port is currently active. Add TCT port throughput to DS8K performance dashboard. View/Change TCT port configurations without using DSCLI...
    10 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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