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IBM DS8000

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Request to confirm a microcode specification of PMIR for DS8880.

On DS8870 R7.3, the following problem has occurred and we heard from PFE/Development that its cause is microcode specification. Therefore, on 2015/05 we have opened FITS MR0513155244 to request the design change, but we do not know its result beca...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Minimize impact to DS8K when replacing an DA Card

"Bad" response time occurred duringthe period that DA card was being repaired.Please see PMH 32678,100,838. The customer would like if possible to reduce the impact during DA repair process.
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Metro Mirror TimeStamp

To have the ability to query Metro Mirror target DS8K about the timestamp of the last synchronous valid replication.
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Change Cascading bit without stopping/starting GM on DS8000 in Mainframe environnement

After a migration to new ds8k using the cascading with GM, under z/Os v2r2, the client is seeing an incoherent response in macro ANTRQST & ANTPQMAP(PMS 67378,662,706). A PMH has been openned on DS8000, and it pointed out that this incoherent r...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Multi Target XRC (RMZ)

Customer would like the ability of a volume to be a source to two XRC sessions concurrently.
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Metro Mirror Target as a XRC (RMZ) Source on DS8000

Customer would like the ability to have a Metro Mirror target volume be a source to an XRC (RMZ) session.
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Request for improvement of AIX multipath driver (SDDPCM)

The SDDPCM is coded for multiple storage paths connected to a single host adapter. For consistent workload, we require a single adapter be mapped to a single storage port. The SDDpcm does not see this as a balanced implementation, and teh select c...
over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

PCIT0509-1235 Eliminate storage capacity loss due to ECKD

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Julieta.RossSubmitters Company: Citigroup PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PCIT0509-1235 Eliminate storage capacity loss due to ECKDHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent Status: Closed ...
over 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

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