IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM DS8000

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    Provide IP filtering capability for the DS8000 platform

    Provide IP filtering capability (or an allow list) that would allow customer inbound access to the DSGUI, DSCLI and WUI (HMC) for a list of configurable IP addresses (IPv4 or IPv6 format) or DNS names and explicitly deny everything else. The IP fi...
    about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Encryption: Switching between Local and External Encryption

    Many customers today, like this one, start with Local encryption. Also as this is cheaper, and less effort, than purchasing GKLM. And Local is often initially enough, for data-at-rest encryption. But later on they hear about IFCES (IBM Fibre Chann...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    add security to dscli commands

    we want to create personalized security profile by selecting only some dscli commands (and equivalence with the GUI) to restrict permission to a community.
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    S3 target on DS8

    Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    DS8000 should send SNMP message (SNM038I) in EBCDIC format, instead of ASCII.

    DS8000 family is an "enterprise-class storage for IBM Z". ASCII is not the standard mainframe encoding format. Converting from ASCII to character is not an easy task. We automate SNM038I via IBM System Automation. To interprete SNM038I (in ASCII f...
    9 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Native LDAP for DS Storage

    Description - Include native LDAP feature for DS8K frames, currently only DS888x frames have it built in w/ CSM Current Workaround - no workaround
    over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

    DS8K Metromirror Recovery Method

    In order to quickly recovery a metromirror relationship (at 800KM) the copy sets had to be switched to Global Copy Mode and then Switched back once resynched. This should not be an undocumented recovery method. This should be automatic behavior fr...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Support more than 32 active GM Sessions

    Increase the maximum supported active GM sessions in DS8880 from current hardware limitation of 32 active sessions to at least 64 active sessions . For example the IBM SVC support up to 256 - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S101...
    almost 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Global Copy pacing

    We would like to be able to pace Global Copy so that we can make sure it does not cause any performance degradation on target DS8. So far, only a poke is available, not manageable from client. Suggestion is: a setting, editable through DSCLI, whic...
    about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

    Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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