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IBM DS8000

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    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.
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Openshift ODF compatibility with Thin Provisioned disks

    Thin Provisioned disks which are quick formatted using the dasdfmt utility with ODF / Ceph are currently not supported or recommended by IBM. TP disks have been supported since RHEL 8 on s390x / System z so why not with ODF / Ceph ?
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Support of 3 active replication relationship in DS8000

    To maintain 2 synchronous relationship on 4-copy at 2-site will require support of 3 active relationship to achieve a symmetric model to provide extra resilience in both cases of storage system failure and site failure.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    RestAPI access to ESG information provided by 'show su' CLI command.

    Many clients are required to report on ESG/energy use in their data centers. This would provide a way to collect this data in an automated way.
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    DS8000 Submitting a Test Call Home Case

    This would be useful to make sure a call home case gets submitted to IBM Support. The test call home feature is good, but would like it to be more comprehensive. This shows that its able to make a connection and is able to create a case after let'...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Data integrity check per dasd volume

    Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
    about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Select background colour in GUI

    When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
    about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    optimize output in the microcode "health check" panel in the DSGUI

    We moved from 89.32.40.0 to 89.33.35.0 using the internal microcode function of the DS GUI.Everything works fine, but we think that the UX and GUI output of the "System Health Check" could be visualy better. So you can better understand what you s...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    CUIR (Control Unit Initiated Recovery) for DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

    Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DASD<-->Z works fineControl Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for Tape<-->Z works fineCUIR works fine with Microcode-Updates and hardware-maintenance Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DA...
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    certificate import to a truststore to be used for TCT cloud connect

    Client wants to import certificate chain of its cloud server to get them trusted on the DS8K to avoid to specify them at the mkcloudserver command.
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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