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IBM DS8000

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Offer options for excluding the accumulation of some messages related to Safeguarded Copies taken off the GM Secondary in the DSGUI Events

I currently have no visibility on events that occurred more than 3 hours ago on my primary site DS8950F because of a flood of informative " Remote Relationship State Changed" caused by the CGPAUSE needed for the SGC process taking place at seconda...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 to the IBM DS8000

The future of DS8000 for IBM Z and LinuxONE will need to add Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 interface to the DS8000 to satisfy the needs of the AI Data centers. Please, refer to the other complementary idea "Adding Compute Express Link CX...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Need for support the combination of AIX 7.2 TL5SP4 and DSCLI in a Japanese language environment.

After updating AIX7.2 TL1SP2 to AIX7.2 TL5SP4, DSCLI doesn't display Japanese characters (Shift JIS, IBM-943) correctly. Support personnel explain that it is known as a limitation of S-JIS and advised to use English or UTF-8 instead of S-JIS. Howe...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

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

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

The result of DSCLI command showckdvol is too slow. Related to TS010511348.

To find out which SafeGuarded Copy page is used, we need to issue showckdvol commands on each volume. We have many volumes and each order takes a long time (sometimes more than a minute). How to have a better response time on this order? This idea...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Agregate messages on DS8000's HMC. Related to TS010580871.

On the HMC of DS8000, some messages appear several hundred times (1 message per volume). Would it be possible to combine these messages into a generic message? And to allow them to be seen by unfolding the generic message (example by clicking on +...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review