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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...
about 1 year 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 ...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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

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
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8000 Dynamic Volume Expansion and Copy Services.

I want the ability to continue to use Dynamic Volume Expansion even while my DS8886 DASD Volumes are currently in a Copy Services (GC,FC,MM) session. You have effectively removed Dynamic Volume Expansion from ever being used again if involved in a...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

REST API to support client certificates

For a more secure connection, we would like to request that you implement the option to use client certificates for authentication.
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 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

Add SNMP V3 support for events/traps in HMC

Hello, we are implementing monitoring of SNMP events in WWAO focal point and seems it's possible to setup trap in HMC (DS8950F) using V2 only but customer would like to have V3 due to security reasons.
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release