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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...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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

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.
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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

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

Avoiding full volume background copy after restoring of one FlashCopy relation in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy env.

The environment we request this enhancement is in DS8K multiple incremental FlashCopy with cascading FC support. In this environment, The customer will have two incremental FC relationships from one source A as Step1 bellow. Actually they will tak...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

Provide support on DS8910F for DADSM UNMAP function in Copy Services relationships to allow use of Erase on Scratch on z/OS without unacceptable overhead

Our DASD environment is all-flash DS8910F, mirrored across a distance of approx 25km. In order to satisfy audit requirements, we recently enabled Erase On Scratch via RACF (SETROPS ERASE (ALL)). Unfortunately this created an unacceptable overhead ...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

S3 Object Storages compatible with Transparent Cloud Tiering

We're implementing the Transparent Cloud Tiering for a Mainframe environment and customer would like to use other on-prem solutions of Object Storage, different of TS7700 or COS, to store data. Customer would like to use: - Hitachi HCP - DellEMC E...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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

Increase (virtual) DS8000 capacity limits

(virtual) DS8000 capacity is limited to 3652 TiB (approx. 4 PB) with thin provisioning and Small Extents (Thin provisioning and Small Extents is recommended by IBM) 2019 (with) DS8880 we were hit by this limitation. We used some overprovisioning (...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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