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IBM DS8000

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LCP : Dynamic Management (increase and decrease) of Safeguarded Capacity

This idea would benefit all IBM z customers who are using, or who are considering implementing Logical Corruption Protection (aka z Cyber Vault) of data hosted on DS8000 storage subsystems. It would be of particular value to large installations wh...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DSCLI for zVM

Hi, Working for Kyndryl France, Resiliency Services on z Mainframe, we resize our dasd arrays very very often.I think it could be nice to have the opportunity to use DSCLI on z/VM rather than a browser or .bat on windows. Be able to develop a rexx...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

The object storage of DS8000 TCT output can be used for FlashCopy target

In Japan z/OS market, DFSMShsm gets only 10% shares, so DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering will not be considered. My customer hopes to utilize DS8k TCT function just like as FlashCopy or Concurrent Copy via DFSMSdss Copy command . Restoring from ob...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Increase the DS8000 TCT throughput per dataset

Customer is using DS8K TCT with HSM in mainframe to have a 3rd copy of data in the IBM Cloud (COS).They are using 3 DS8K boxes and the total throughput they can achieve is not enough to send the data generated in the last 24h every day.The limitat...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

SafeGuarded backup allocation using a pool concept

Customer is running Safe Guarded backups for a month (31 days) worth of backups on a daily schedule. They have around 3500 volumes. Many of these are involved in DB2 and ADBAS databses. These database volumes (as well as some system volumes) under...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Process monitoring of the ESSNI communication layer

The ESSNI communication layer connecting the Management Console with the Clusters/LPARs internal and the Client Interfaces (CLI , GUI , CSM) external is a very complex communication environment. According to the current design there is no extern...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Add HMC's IP address when creating certificate signing request on DS8K GUI

Currently the certificate signing request created via the DS8K's GUI only allow to have the HMC's DNS in it. If we could add the HMC's IP then both the connection via the DNS and the IP would be secure after the certificate is imported.
12 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8K TCT can support a proxy server

[Background] We were planning on using TCT to store data in IBM cloud. Because the customer hopes to have the encrypted data stored externally and used in a contingency.However, the customer's security policy requires the use of a proxy server for...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration