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IBM DS8000

Allow longer TLS Certificates in DS8000 HMC, 2048 Bit is too less

The Strength of Certificates was increased for all types of Certificates,and the TLS-Connection to HMC of DS8000 have to be hardened. The German BSI gives the order for minimum certificate lengh of 3072 Bit, more is allowed.Less is not allowed. So...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 Submitted

Support for concurrent uCode update on DS8000 ECKD for 21CS VSEn customers

Currently, based on very old experiences with IBM z/VSE and DS8000 uCode upgrades, on the Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates Customer "Must-Read" Information for DS8000 Code Updates for example IBM DS8900F Microcode Customer ...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Enhance RestAPI to allow for control of AOS

AOS is a mission critical remote support tool. Activation of AOS creates a threat vector therefore it should only ever be activated as needed and closed when support if fulfilled. Given the need for support could occur anytime, and the staff avail...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Add support for SNMP v3 with Auth/Priv

Required per JPMC auditors. Implement SNMP with Auth & Priv with minimum levels of Auth to be SHA256 and Priv to be AES256
10 months ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

Implementing other message codes for SNMP trap 221

The client configuration is using DS8900 with Safe Guarded Copy At the moment when they see an SNMP trap trigger for trap 221 they only receive Message Code 10, which is telling them it's already removing space. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Add Transparent Cloud Tiering configuration and testing into the GUI or WUI

Adding a TCT screen to the GUI could include features such as: Provide customer visible indicator of which TCT port is currently active. Add TCT port throughput to DS8K performance dashboard. View/Change TCT port configurations without using DSCLI...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration

Enhance RESTful API to be able to pull user group data

We need to be able to extract the following settings via RESTful API. User group information: - Remote mappings and the roles they are assigned.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Future consideration

pseudo admin to administer and manage the box/users without access to destructive commands

We would like to have the ability to create a pseudo admin userid which has the ability access and manage all settings on the ds8ks and perform user account management but without all the other powerful options / dscli commands commonly used by th...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 Planned for future release

Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

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 ...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 Not under consideration