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IBM DS8000

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DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Change password expiration for only one userid

Hello, We would like to know if it is possible to create a command to change the password expiration for only one userid, not for all the userid on the ds8k. today when we use the chpass command the password is changed for al the user id from the ...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Add 'setcontactinfo' to DSCLI on DS8900 series

Implement a command to set and update call home contact information on DS8900 series DSCLI. Update Name, Email, Phone, Address, etc. Similar to chsacfg command on HMCs
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Check customer informations consistency in both HMC

In the case, the second HCM did a call home, but the customer EMAIL was not present (it was in the first HMC). the problem is certainly an installation problem, but despite this, this problem prevent the support to email back to the customer (writ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Recovery Volumes from same SGC Backup volume

The ability to have multiple R (Recovery) Volumes from the same B (Backup) volumes would support where one R volume is presented to infrastructure for forensic analysis and cleaning etc., and another R volume from the same B source presented to ot...
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address

DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address. This creates the potential for a DS8K HMC to assume the IP address of a gateway/router on the network.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Secure LCU from PPRC Target

I would like to be able to keep a volume(s) from being used for a PPRC target. I would prefer it to be protected at the LCU/LSS level. Since there is no user associated with a PPRC target, resource groups do not apply. I want to be able to protect...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

RPO Timestamp with Global Mirror recovery

We recently converted from MzGM to MGM. With MzGM, XRC provided an extremely granular timestamp on XRECOVER that told us what the specific RPO of our application data was. Along with RTO, RPO is one of the single most important concepts for Disast...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum number of Safeguarded Copy captures beyond 500

The current limit of 500 SGC captures means we have to have a trade-off between the frequency of captures, and the retention period of those captures. We have currently have a company-wide requirement for 7 days retention, which means we are limit...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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