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IBM DS8000

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Ability to require dual control for destructive functions

Our auditors and risk team have identified the risk that support personnel can destroy significant portions of our business with the ability to reconfigure our storage devices. As it currently exists a single employee could perform this destructiv...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8K HMCs should recommend regular power recycles

DS8K should recommend regular maintenance procedures for HMC power cycles to prevent hangs. This could be yearly, bi-yearly, etc., as long as it was a time period sufficient to prevent hangs due to unforeseen circumstances. This would prevent HMCs...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Usage of DS8000 Client certificate to eliminate stored password within MCDS.

Usage of DS8000 Client certificate to eliminate stored password within MCDS. We basically looking to eliminate the need to store any Passwords even though it may be encrypted.
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Certificate used on port 1751

DS8950F -> Port 1751 have Certificate lifespan is longer than 5 years root CA=/C=US/postalCode=85744/ST=Arizona/L=Tucson/O=International Business Machines/OU=Storage Systems/CN=ESSNI_NIST Issuer: C=US/postalCode=85744, ST=Arizona, L=Tucson, O=I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DS8000 IP Replication Option

The Home Depot is moving to an IP over Ethernet only WAN. Their network team's direction is to eliminate FC-IP routers which will require storage arrays to be able to replicate natively over IP. This capability will be taken into consideration for...
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Errors for RSYSLOG should show more detail.

We enabled RSYSLOG pointing to a test syslog server. The action appeared to work properly but very soon after the status of the server was shown as being offline. However, when I queried the syslog server data was being sent so it wasn't truly off...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

FlashDrive - 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

CIM agent on DS8900F for Spectrum Protect Snapshot

CIM Agent not available on DS8900. CIM is the only option to connect Spectrum protect snapshot to generate DB2 & SAP integrated Flashcopies https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6353361#req_stg ***note:NON ZOS RELATED BUT RFE WEBPAGE ONLY ALL...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

DS8000 needs to allow customer access to detailed debugging logs for cloud related activities.

Currently network activity and error states between the DS8000 and cloud porividers, and also between DS8000 and z/OS, is not available to view. The only log available is the audit log which does not provide detail on how the DS8000 preceives or h...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Embedded DSCLI should support file access

Ability to use the DSCLI for commands that are currently not supported. The latest one is our attempt to establish an SSL connection between the DS8950F and TS7700. We were unable to do it in the embedded DSCLI as the file certificates (root &...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

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