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IBM DS8000

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Support of 3 active replication relationship in DS8000

To maintain 2 synchronous relationship on 4-copy at 2-site will require support of 3 active relationship to achieve a symmetric model to provide extra resilience in both cases of storage system failure and site failure.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Add support to "cluster" object in RESTful API

Add support for "cluster" objects in RESTful API, to be used for storage provisioning automation purposes.
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

LCP : Dynamic Management (increase and decrease) of Safeguarded Capacity

This idea would benefit all IBM z customers who are using, or who are considering implementing Logical Corruption Protection (aka z Cyber Vault) of data hosted on DS8000 storage subsystems. It would be of particular value to large installations wh...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DS8000 SGC Monitoring, Reporting and Management with Manual and Auto Control

We are utilizing Safeguarded Copy across all of our Production environments. As the capability grows, so do the requirements in terms of capacity and performance. Regarding changes in capacity needs based on host activity or change in algorithm of...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Allow for the concurrent creation/existence of several recovery sets from a given set of SGC captures

Our use case: a daily backup to tape of SGC restores for our 4 production environments. The largest one takes 10 hours to background copy before we can create another restore which is longer than the time to backup to tape without the background c...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DS8XXXX Display Current Speed for Fibre Channel Ports As Well As Maximum Speed

I would request that the DS8 CLI and GUI be improved so that the current operating speed of a Fibre Channel Port will be displayed in: 1) lsioport output2) On a new column on the the Settings > Network > Fibre Channel Ports page.3) When hove...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

CUIR (Control Unit Initiated Recovery) for DS8000<->DS8000 Fibre-Channel Remote Copy Links

Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DASD<-->Z works fineControl Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for Tape<-->Z works fineCUIR works fine with Microcode-Updates and hardware-maintenance Control Unit Initiated Recovery (CUIR) for DA...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Ability to upgrade CSM via the DS8000 GUI or embedded CLI

Having CSM integrated onto the DS8000 HMCs has been very helpful for a number of clients. Currently, however, it is only possible for a client to upgrade CSM to a desired level via the external DSCLI. For most clients that use CSM on the HMC, this...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

REST API to support client certificates

For a more secure connection, we would like to request that you implement the option to use client certificates for authentication.
almost 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

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