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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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IBM DS8000

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DS8K Safeguard Copy Integration with IBM Qradar

Customer keen in exploring ways of using DS8000 Safeguard copy to integrate with IBM Qradar, to enhance their Cyber and Data Resiliency. We've this new offerings in Flashsystem with Spectrum Virtualize product family, but no plan for DS8000.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Erase on Scratch

We have been directed to implement the ERASE on Scratch (ALL) setting on our IBM Systems. Testing was done in our Development environment, but users notified us that the elapsed times of jobs that deleted large disk files were significantly longer...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 9 Delivered

Volume unmapping with independency

This event occur on VMWARE environment and not on z/OS! On microcode Release 87.51.103.0 when a set of volumes has more than one host and an unmap process is done via GUI all volumes are unmapped as well for others different hosts. This process is...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.

<Customer>Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. (Kampo) <Summary of the Request>Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Fast Replication flashcopy target disk to be supported on a MGM environment

Environment:z/OS 2.3 z14SysplexDS8870 all dasd controllersGDPS MGM with hyperswapSite A -> <PPRC> -> Site B -> <GM> -> Site C
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

RACF/SDBM Support for LDAP on DS8000

Adding a native LDAP Client on DS8000 including support for RACF/SDBM. We want to use a IBM Directory Server for z/OS with SDBM backend. This is NOT supported even for CSM yet.Having more types for authentication policies to configure LDAP authent...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Increase the maximum number of consistency groups

We need to support more than 32 consistency groups (idealy double). We have a customer that is using a DS8k in Open (non-Z environement) and this limitation have an impact to current installation but also to any feature DS8k installations . For ex...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8000 SafeGuarded Copy - Create backup delayed

OS clients: IBM i and ZIndustry: Banking, Insurance and health When the SGC run at the DR site, we need to suspend GM session for creating backup.Stopping GM session for 5 (five!) minute only for backup and 10 minute for overall SGC task - increas...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Authentication when using SMTP to send email

DS8000 uses SMTP to send emails for Monitoring and notifications. Actually there is no possibility to send emails with authentication (SMTP user and password). Security is getting more and more important. Our SMTP server does not allow unauthentic...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

DS8000 - Copy Services support for LUN sizes greater than 2 TB.

Currently, DS8000 Copy Services are not supported for LUN sizes that are greater than 2 TB. This limit is restrictive. In today's environment of ever increasing datasets it is time that Copy Services support LUN sizes greater than 2 TB. I would re...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered