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IBM DS8000

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    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...
    over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    DS8910F the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location

    DS8910F .the names of the download files should be customized. As a customer, for example, we would like to have our location designation included in the file name.This is important for regulatory reasons.
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Administracion DS8K interactividad entre GUI y CLI

    El cliente tiene la necesidad de interactuar entre comando de linea CLI y interfaz grafica GUI, tanto via software de la cambia como via CSM. Se solicita que la cabina autorefresque cada cierto tiempo para que los cambios realizados via CLI se vea...
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    Add the source/target DS8K serial or WWN in the DSCLI lspprc command output

    When issuing the lspprc command, the output shows you the type of pprc and the source/target lss, but not to which DS8K you are copying to/from. In a multitarget environnement with a lss being the source of multiple pprc, knowing the targeted DS8K...
    over 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 8 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...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Allow client to choose ciphers for HMC's

    The z15 allows the customer to pick the ciphers they want for https: to HMC's
    over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Planned for future release

    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...
    about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

    Add /var/spool/clientmqueue to logrotate

    HMC2 was unable to backup critical data or send emails due to writes to /var were failing with "[No space left on device]". The cause of this was because /var was completely out of inodes as a result of /var/spool/clientmqueue had accumulated over...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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