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IBM DS8000

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DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398 In the old GUI when we went to c...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Encryption: Switching between Local and External Encryption

Many customers today, like this one, start with Local encryption. Also as this is cheaper, and less effort, than purchasing GKLM. And Local is often initially enough, for data-at-rest encryption. But later on they hear about IFCES (IBM Fibre Chann...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

add security to dscli commands

we want to create personalized security profile by selecting only some dscli commands (and equivalence with the GUI) to restrict permission to a community.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements for DS8000 REST API

We are using REST API to get configuration data out from the DS8000 storage system.We would like to have more API request types to get also security informations from DS8000.We need to know the active authentication policy with properties, informa...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Allow for the update of CSM versions without using DSCLI interface.

Many clients use the DSCLI version built into the HMC GUI. Currently if you would like to upgrade the version of CSM you are required to install the DS8KDSCLI on a third server to facilitate the upgrade. This defeats part of the reason of using th...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Global Copy pacing

We would like to be able to pace Global Copy so that we can make sure it does not cause any performance degradation on target DS8. So far, only a poke is available, not manageable from client. Suggestion is: a setting, editable through DSCLI, whic...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

Add REstApi to query all volumes on a DS8K

You can only have a list of volumes if you gives the pool_id or LSS_id. Is-it possible to have a Rest Api to have a list of all volumes on a DS8K without to do looping query on LSS or pool_id ?
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Erase on Scratch (Hardware)

Last year we were directed to use Erase on Scratch(All) on our z/OS Systems. Testing was done on our Development Systems, but due to long elapsed times for Batch jobs, Erase on Scratch was turned off. We have a mix of DS8886's and DS8870 DASD Subs...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Customer access to download and manipulate logfiles

Since customer is allowed to do a code load it is evident that the log files should not contain any errors. Since the logfiles can only be downloaded from call home support and manipulated we have an issue when the customer initiated code load fails.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups

We will implement SafeGuardedCopy on our new DS8980F. We want to be able to make Dynamic Volume Expansion without losing our previous SGC backups. Can this be available in a near future ? We are aware of the following : (Extract from IBM Copy Ser...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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