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IBM DS8000

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DS8900F System Summary Export lacking key information

Trying to manage Safeguarded Copy capacity. It is possible, with the showckdvol command, to see how much Safeguarded Virtual capacity is defined and how much is used. RFE 115173 asks that some capacity information be exposed on the lsckdvol comman...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

ilab: DS8900 UI not provide FICON device with Z host relation

ilab: DS8900 UI not provide FICON device with Z host relation I used to open a DS8000 CMVC defect 346655 against this issue. But according to developer's advice, I should open a RFE and they will be discussing it in future. Here's the developer's ...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 4 Delivered

Fast Replication flashcopy target disk to be supported on a MGM environment

Environment:z/OS 2.3 z14SysplexDS8870 all dasd controllersGDPS MGM with hyperswapSite A -> <PPRC> -> Site B -> <GM> -> Site C
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Erase on Scratch

We have been directed to implement the ERASE on Scratch (ALL) setting on our IBM Systems. Testing was done in our Development environment, but users notified us that the elapsed times of jobs that deleted large disk files were significantly longer...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 9 Delivered

Volume unmapping with independency

This event occur on VMWARE environment and not on z/OS! On microcode Release 87.51.103.0 when a set of volumes has more than one host and an unmap process is done via GUI all volumes are unmapped as well for others different hosts. This process is...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8880 misses option to display possible and used virtual Capacity from WEB GUI

We use ESE volumes with small extents. In the WEB GUI we really miss a simple way to show the configured virtual Capacity as well as the max available virtual capacity. We suggest to add a bar beside the bar showing the physical capacity
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Support for Multi-Target GM Copies

This is around having single volumes use GM to do multi-target copies to two different sites. i.e. A to B and A to C (both async) simultaneously. [Cascaded A to B, then B to C both async would also be fine]. In Sametime session with Gail Spears, s...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8000 DSCLI should allow query of current healt status of all the components

While logging in to the DS8886 GUI a coworker noticed that some of our DS8886's were in a 'service required' state. Apparently there was a failure in the service notification and the CE was not aware. After researching further we noticed several o...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

RACF/SDBM Support for LDAP on DS8000

Adding a native LDAP Client on DS8000 including support for RACF/SDBM. We want to use a IBM Directory Server for z/OS with SDBM backend. This is NOT supported even for CSM yet.Having more types for authentication policies to configure LDAP authent...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.

<Customer>Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. (Kampo) <Summary of the Request>Request to change the capacitor quality in the Storage Enclosure Midplane.
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

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