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IBM DS8000

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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.
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic RAID / Declustered RAID for Next DS8880

Distributed RAID or Declustered RAID or Dynamic RAID is especially popular with RAID-6 (what is now a default), and larger drive capacities.With larger drive capacities, the rebuild times in general grow a lot. Now this Distributed RAID not only d...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

DS8880 misses option to display possible and used virtual Capacity from WEB GUI

We use ESE volumes with small extents. In the WEB GUI we really miss a simple way to show the configured virtual Capacity as well as the max available virtual capacity. We suggest to add a bar beside the bar showing the physical capacity
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 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 &...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Alter SGC volume threshold percentage via DSCLI

Currently 85% is the default set in IBM DS8k for SGC volumes threshold. To modify this percentage and to get alerting much earlier, this can be done only by IBM DS8K support team by modifying structure csSfgContNotifThreshold. If the option is ava...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Adding the NVMe over TCP/IP to the DS 8000 Connectivity and functionalities

The benefits are: 1-Enabling the DS8000 Storage to be integrated with Distributed Sysplex and Edge Computing based on 5G Networks. 2- Enabling the DS8000 to transfer data over unified 5G network with Edge Computing. 3-Enabling the Intelligent Mana...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Problem with the limit of 256 sessions in one consistency group

My customer PSA manages the replications between his DS8886 with CSM.For production reasons, he defined one and only one a consistency group with a lot of sessions.In the documents it is mentioned that there is a limit to 256 sessions in one consi...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Outboard copy inhibit

Provide capability to reset "Outboard Copy Inhibit" flag on the DS8000. This flag is set by mvs software - e.g. TDMF and can be reset by MVS DEVSERV commands. However, a backdoor DS8000 method to do this is absent.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Allow Multiple MGM sessions per LSS

Please allow us to split LSS device ranges into multiple MGM sessions. Devices on a LSS could still be contiguous per session, but would like to split those between sessions.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

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