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IBM DS8000

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Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
about 3 years 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...
almost 2 years 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 +...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of the DS8000 decommission process

The embedded DSCLI should support the key management commands.
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DS8000 "Service Required" with Yellow components / orange triangle with an exclamation mark should occur ONLY IF IBM support is needed.

Customer First-Level-Operations has to manage multiple Systemes (including DS8000 with SIMs, SNMP-Traps and more). In case of any alert First-Level-Operations checks the situation by Messages and is using the GUI https://ip-addr/DS8000/gui#dashboa...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Support more than 32 active GM Sessions

Increase the maximum supported active GM sessions in DS8880 from current hardware limitation of 32 active sessions to at least 64 active sessions . For example the IBM SVC support up to 256 - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S101...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Native LDAP for DS Storage

Description - Include native LDAP feature for DS8K frames, currently only DS888x frames have it built in w/ CSM Current Workaround - no workaround
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

DS8950F LDAP works same time to AD and local users

Native LDAP - Only one DS8900F authentication policy can be active at a time: either the basic-local or the remote authentication policy.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Average DS8K power consumption command

My customer is interested in monitoring the power consumption of the DS8K. Apparently there's no command or any other easy way to obtain it, so they would like to be able to get the average power consumption with a command in a similar way as they...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

PCIE hardware - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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