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IBM DS8000

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DS8000 SafeGuarded Copy - Create backup delayed

OS clients: IBM i and ZIndustry: Banking, Insurance and health When the SGC run at the DR site, we need to suspend GM session for creating backup.Stopping GM session for 5 (five!) minute only for backup and 10 minute for overall SGC task - increas...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8000 DSCLI mkkpprc command output enhancement

The mkpprc command with the nocp option indicates successful completion for already existing MTIR pairs. Since the MTIR is a system defined PPRC relationship, that only exists on the source device, the successful completion of the mkpprc command f...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Safeguard-immutable copies should remain until their retention expires

Currently, if there isn't enough space for a safeguarded copy, old copies are removed from the DS8 to allow for the new copy to take place. A safeguarded copy should never expire before it's retention period. Safeguarded copies should stop, and al...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Improve DS8000 Host Adapter architecture to provide greater performance over larger fiber distance (RTT 50ms)

It has been found that over a fiber distance of 50ms RTT, the 32G Host Adapter provides a maximum throughput of 500 MB/s if 1 PPRC port is utilized on the HA. The PPRC port was connected to a 32G port on the Director which in turn had a 128G tunne...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Authentication when using SMTP to send email

DS8000 uses SMTP to send emails for Monitoring and notifications. Actually there is no possibility to send emails with authentication (SMTP user and password). Security is getting more and more important. Our SMTP server does not allow unauthentic...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

DS8000 - Copy Services support for LUN sizes greater than 2 TB.

Currently, DS8000 Copy Services are not supported for LUN sizes that are greater than 2 TB. This limit is restrictive. In today's environment of ever increasing datasets it is time that Copy Services support LUN sizes greater than 2 TB. I would re...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8888 GUI to Include IO Card Physical Location

In the Previous GUI for DS8888, under Configure IO Ports, we are able to see what is the physical location for a port, eg R1-B1-C1-T0 as well as the I0XXX number and WWPN for the port. However in the new DS8888 GUI, under "Settings > Network" i...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Changing SGC behavior when pool run out of space

Customer run SGC session on DR site (Global Mirror target site).When extend pool used for SGC Capacity reached 90% usage the system starts to roll off SGC backups on VOLUME BASE to free up space. In this situation ALL backups failed and not recove...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

DS8000 Volume groups can't be manage in GUI

IBM DS8000 Storage server use Volume Groups for managing connectivity to Open servers (including IBMi). In the new GUI Volume Groups not presented.Old (previous) GUI removed from V9.So only way to manage VG with CLI. It will be nice to insert VG m...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

DS8000 Host Adapter - fcping support

Provide fcping capability on DS8K host adapters similar to what existed on 8Gb HAs. Below is a comment from IBM Development REF PMR 23506,082,000 regarding ECHO ELS handling in newer HAs. "It looks like it is a difference on how the ECHO ELS is ha...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

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