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IBM DS8000

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pseudo admin to administer and manage the box/users without access to destructive commands

We would like to have the ability to create a pseudo admin userid which has the ability access and manage all settings on the ds8ks and perform user account management but without all the other powerful options / dscli commands commonly used by th...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

RestAPI access to ESG information provided by 'show su' CLI command.

Many clients are required to report on ESG/energy use in their data centers. This would provide a way to collect this data in an automated way.
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Integrate the use of RELP protocol in DS8K for syslog management

RELP is a reliable syslog events management protocol (message delivery tracking). Supporting RELP in DS8K would be an enhancement in events management systems integration.
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8880 - Increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server to 512

Sicoob is requesting IBM's support for to increase the maximum number of disk devices supported on a VMware ESXi/ESX server and DS8880 to 512, once on VMware side this support is possible.
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Need for support the combination of AIX 7.2 TL5SP4 and DSCLI in a Japanese language environment.

After updating AIX7.2 TL1SP2 to AIX7.2 TL5SP4, DSCLI doesn't display Japanese characters (Shift JIS, IBM-943) correctly. Support personnel explain that it is known as a limitation of S-JIS and advised to use English or UTF-8 instead of S-JIS. Howe...
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

More granulary distribution and documentation of roles

We need a more detailled way to manage the rights and roles in our DS8k environment, as we have received the requirement from our Security department to monitor and restrict roles based on Users etc. Expected GUI enhancements and display of which ...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Monitoring DS8K network adapters

Using Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) the network adapters are now key for this function. Currently there is no function available to monitor the utilization of the adapters. The idea is to add an option within ‘monitoring’ à ‘performance’ where I...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8000 REST API New functions

Expand the DS8k REST API to include more functions that are provided today with DSCLI.
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration