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IBM DS8000

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    Add 'setcontactinfo' to DSCLI on DS8900 series

    Implement a command to set and update call home contact information on DS8900 series DSCLI. Update Name, Email, Phone, Address, etc. Similar to chsacfg command on HMCs
    over 2 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 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

    Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future 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 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Increase the DS8000 TCT throughput per dataset

    Customer is using DS8K TCT with HSM in mainframe to have a 3rd copy of data in the IBM Cloud (COS).They are using 3 DS8K boxes and the total throughput they can achieve is not enough to send the data generated in the last 24h every day.The limitat...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    more volumes on DS8000

    Currently, only 65280 volumes are possible in DS8000, due to the LSS/LCU concept. When in a FlashCopy relation, this is cut in half practically.Increase this somehow so that well more (e.g. over 200,000) volumes are possible.
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Add an 'absolute' logout for DS8 GUI and CLI

    Along with the idle timeout on the DS8 GUI, further security restrictions are requiring us to have an 'absolute' logout time. Even if session is NOT idle a login could not be longer than 12 hours (for example). This should be included on the DS8 G...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Erase on Scratch (Hardware)

    Last year we were directed to use Erase on Scratch(All) on our z/OS Systems. Testing was done on our Development Systems, but due to long elapsed times for Batch jobs, Erase on Scratch was turned off. We have a mix of DS8886's and DS8870 DASD Subs...
    over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

    Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398 In the old GUI when we went to c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Increase the maximum number of Safeguarded Copy captures beyond 500

    The current limit of 500 SGC captures means we have to have a trade-off between the frequency of captures, and the retention period of those captures. We have currently have a company-wide requirement for 7 days retention, which means we are limit...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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