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IBM DS8000

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    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

    Automated DS8000 system summary export

    Client is requested by authorities to prove that, in case of a major cyberattack or disaster, he has retrieve logical configuration of his DS8Ks (and can thus reconfigure his DS8K rapidly once hardware is available). DS8000 offers already the capa...
    3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Power 11 model with up to 60 cores per CEC

    The DS8A80 has 24 Power9+ cores per CEC, which is about the same as the DS8980F had, and which is not so much more than the DS8A50 or DS8950F which come with 20 Power9 cores per CEC. Power 11 comes with up to 60 cores per CEC, and a lot more trans...
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Warrining Alerts Option to be made Available

    We had recent case with one of private sector banking customer using DS8K for their most critical database. Due to one of the controller one disk reporting "disk operation errors" entire controller went offline impacting their business. In AIX we ...
    5 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

    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

    Add an 'absolute' logout for DS8 GUI and CLI

    Along with the idle timeout on the DS8 GUI, further security restrictions are requiring us to have an 'absolute' logout time. Even if session is NOT idle a login could not be longer than 12 hours (for example). This should be included on the DS8 G...
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    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

    Request for Product Qualification: Fortanix

    Customer is needing to integrate their DS8's into their new Fortanix external key manager. They are requesting IBM's support to officially support the EKM on DS8. DS8000 storage system - 88.59.53.0 DS8900 storage system - 89.41.25.0 DS8A00 model A...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    PPRC with LUN's greater than 4TB

    The customer in CMVC 372631 (BANK_OF_PIRAEUS) wants to migrate data from DS8900 (75KND00) to DS8A00 (78NWC50); involving volumes with a size of more than 4 TB. Current code has a boundary to allow for replication of a volume above a size of 4TB.
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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