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IBM DS8000

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Develop or update API to show compression information in GEN10 for pools and devices

This information will help to monitor the growth of the data in the DS8K. It's actually availlable in DSCLI but not in API.
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Update DSCLI windows client with Developer Signatures for Win 11 Security

The current DSCLI client will not install in Windows 11 environments secured with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, as the installer is not signed by a developer certificate. After moving to Windows 11, our storage admin team (4+ admins) is unable t...
about 2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Request for Product Qualification: DAR Encryption External Key Manager for Jack Henry

Customer is migrating their enterprise to Fortanix DSM 4.23+. They are shutting down their existing EKM's. All data center assets need to utilize Fortanix DSM for centralized, separation of duties, EKM management. Jack Henry current DS8 systems: D...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Query for bitmap increment status

During a configuration change from H3->H1->H2 to H1->H2->H3, running the start H1->H2->H3 command may result in an unexpected full copy from H2 to H3 instead of a quick resync (for example, when z/OS systems were down after rolli...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Openshift ODF compatibility with Thin Provisioned disks

Thin Provisioned disks which are quick formatted using the dasdfmt utility with ODF / Ceph are currently not supported or recommended by IBM. TP disks have been supported since RHEL 8 on s390x / System z so why not with ODF / Ceph ?
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Support for Hyperswap - Linux on Z.

Hello Development and Product management teams. I would like to suggest an enhancement to the DS8000 related to the high availability solution, Hyperswap. We are seeing an increasing number of customers adopting Linux on Z, and one of these custom...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Under review

Allow customer to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level

Allow customers to use LDAP groups for both authentication and authorization level (admin, operator, etc) … The customer would like to adminstir the groups on th eDS8k exactly how it works in the Storage Manager GUI for the z/OS.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8000 Submitting a Test Call Home Case

This would be useful to make sure a call home case gets submitted to IBM Support. The test call home feature is good, but would like it to be more comprehensive. This shows that its able to make a connection and is able to create a case after let'...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review