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IBM DS8000

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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

DS8K Should Be Intelligent Enough to Compare Source and Target Data for Remote Copies

When a relationship between a source and target system is accidentally lost, the DS8K must re-copy all the data. Instead the DS8K should be able to compare the source and target data so that only changed data or missing structures are copied. This...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

When cases are created it would be beneficial if we could change the case owner from the default based on who is dealing with the issue .

This would prevent unnecessary updates to the default case owner when they may not be interested . When we have a large number of cases to deal with sometime it would be better to just get updates for cases that you are interested in .
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Encrypt data on DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Encryption of IBMZ<->DS8000 (via FICON FEx16SA and/or FEx32S) is possible. Fibre Channel Endpoint Security provides in-flight protection for all data over FICON and Fibre Channel (FCP) links. But data traffic DS8000<->DS8000 via Fibre...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Administracion DS8K interactividad entre GUI y CLI

El cliente tiene la necesidad de interactuar entre comando de linea CLI y interfaz grafica GUI, tanto via software de la cambia como via CSM. Se solicita que la cabina autorefresque cada cierto tiempo para que los cambios realizados via CLI se vea...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Build 3390 with a track size 64K or larger.

Currently 3390 has a track size around 54Kb. It would be great to have a track 64Kb to write larger records in VSAM. We have a need in our Medical Record System stores several procedure codes and we are always running out of space in the record. I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 equipps IP port for PPRC link use

DS8000 PPRC links are configured via FC ports. When the distance is over 100km, FCIP converters are used for WAN connection. My customer who manages system z server and storage environments hope to use IP ports for PPRC links because he wants to d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

CEC status reporting enhancement

During a current issue with a DS8000 CEC failure (on a DS8880 device), the status of the CEC reported to either CSM or storage insights was that the CEC was active. This is apparently the result of the status coming back as ok simply because the e...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 API - Enhanced Event filter

The current event endpoint does not provide a way to filter out inactive errors and warnings. Neither does the response indicate whether the event is active/inactive. There is no way to poll for currently relevant issues. This filter is available ...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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