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IBM DS8000

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'...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Add ACME client for DS8K HMC and DS8K Storage Manager

Most if not all companies no longer allow Self-Signed Certs on their network. Most if not all organizations are requiring 90 day, 180 day or 365 Day certificate renewals. On the DS8K this is a cumbersome task .. especially for 90 day cert renewals...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Possibility to choose which events are send to external sylsog server /CLI command enhancement

At the moment, we can send logs to an external server. It contains some information as listed in the manual - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/9.3.3?topic=configuring-syslog-server. I would like to be able to select which events need to be sent ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Power Consumption and Energy Statistic Reports

As with most companies nowadays, we have a very large focus on our environmental impact. Keeping track of our power consumption and carbon output is very important and it's something I would like to see added to be available from a PE-Pack for DAS...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Daily System Check using Ansible

In an effort to automate our DS8k-environment with Ansible we are looking into automating our daily system check where we see if there is any physical drives in a failed status. The current process is done via DSCLI and generates a report manually...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

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.
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Call home Support Report

When you go to call home cloud facility to view the z Machine and we have the report tab to see the channel & Adapters but I could not able to see the DS8k. if you have create like z Machine then it would be helpful. Kindly find the attached d...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

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 Future consideration

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