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IBM DS8000

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    DS8950F LDAP works same time to AD and local users

    Native LDAP - Only one DS8900F authentication policy can be active at a time: either the basic-local or the remote authentication policy.
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Planned for future release

    Show commands when running script with multiple CLI commands

    I work with CLI more often than with GUI when provisioning and configuring DS8000. There is a possibility to run multiple CLI commands using a text file. It works well and it is super useful. It would be nice to see commands that have actually bee...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address

    DS8K Configuration menu should not allow the IPv4 and Gateway IP field to use the same address. This creates the potential for a DS8K HMC to assume the IP address of a gateway/router on the network.
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    The object storage of DS8000 TCT output can be used for FlashCopy target

    In Japan z/OS market, DFSMShsm gets only 10% shares, so DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering will not be considered. My customer hopes to utilize DS8k TCT function just like as FlashCopy or Concurrent Copy via DFSMSdss Copy command . Restoring from ob...
    about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Request for Product Qualification: DAR Encryption External Key Manager for Jack Henry

    Customer is migrating their enterprise to Fortanix DSM 4.23+. They are shutting down their existing EKM's. All data center assets need to utilize Fortanix DSM for centralized, separation of duties, EKM management. Jack Henry current DS8 systems: D...
    8 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    RPO Timestamp with Global Mirror recovery

    We recently converted from MzGM to MGM. With MzGM, XRC provided an extremely granular timestamp on XRECOVER that told us what the specific RPO of our application data was. Along with RTO, RPO is one of the single most important concepts for Disast...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Allow for the concurrent creation/existence of several recovery sets from a given set of SGC captures

    Our use case: a daily backup to tape of SGC restores for our 4 production environments. The largest one takes 10 hours to background copy before we can create another restore which is longer than the time to backup to tape without the background c...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

    When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Change password expiration for only one userid

    Hello, We would like to know if it is possible to create a command to change the password expiration for only one userid, not for all the userid on the ds8k. today when we use the chpass command the password is changed for al the user id from the ...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

    Allow for the update of CSM versions without using DSCLI interface.

    Many clients use the DSCLI version built into the HMC GUI. Currently if you would like to upgrade the version of CSM you are required to install the DS8KDSCLI on a third server to facilitate the upgrade. This defeats part of the reason of using th...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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