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IBM DS8000

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Automated DS8000 system summary export

Client is requested by authorities to prove that, in case of a major cyberattack or disaster, he has retrieve logical configuration of his DS8Ks (and can thus reconfigure his DS8K rapidly once hardware is available). DS8000 offers already the capa...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Power 11 model with up to 60 cores per CEC

The DS8A80 has 24 Power9+ cores per CEC, which is about the same as the DS8980F had, and which is not so much more than the DS8A50 or DS8950F which come with 20 Power9 cores per CEC. Power 11 comes with up to 60 cores per CEC, and a lot more trans...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 ScG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume.The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However, ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to choose which events are send to external sylsog server /CLI command enhancement

At the moment, we can send logs to an external server. It contains some information as listed in the manual - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/9.3.3?topic=configuring-syslog-server. I would like to be able to select which events need to be sent ...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Enrich REST APIs for DS/8000 machines

Support of cluster related functionalities in API interface. chclusterlsclustermkclusterrmclustershowcluster
about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Power Consumption and Energy Statistic Reports

As with most companies nowadays, we have a very large focus on our environmental impact. Keeping track of our power consumption and carbon output is very important and it's something I would like to see added to be available from a PE-Pack for DAS...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Warrining Alerts Option to be made Available

We had recent case with one of private sector banking customer using DS8K for their most critical database. Due to one of the controller one disk reporting "disk operation errors" entire controller went offline impacting their business. In AIX we ...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

DS8K TCT can support a proxy server

[Background] We were planning on using TCT to store data in IBM cloud. Because the customer hopes to have the encrypted data stored externally and used in a contingency.However, the customer's security policy requires the use of a proxy server for...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Check customer informations consistency in both HMC

In the case, the second HCM did a call home, but the customer EMAIL was not present (it was in the first HMC). the problem is certainly an installation problem, but despite this, this problem prevent the support to email back to the customer (writ...
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration