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IBM DS8000

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Administracion DS8K interactividad entre GUI y CLI

El cliente tiene la necesidad de interactuar entre comando de linea CLI y interfaz grafica GUI, tanto via software de la cambia como via CSM. Se solicita que la cabina autorefresque cada cierto tiempo para que los cambios realizados via CLI se vea...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 "Service Required" with Yellow components / orange triangle with an exclamation mark should occur ONLY IF IBM support is needed.

Customer First-Level-Operations has to manage multiple Systemes (including DS8000 with SIMs, SNMP-Traps and more). In case of any alert First-Level-Operations checks the situation by Messages and is using the GUI https://ip-addr/DS8000/gui#dashboa...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 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, ...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

DS8K HMCs should recommend regular power recycles

DS8K should recommend regular maintenance procedures for HMC power cycles to prevent hangs. This could be yearly, bi-yearly, etc., as long as it was a time period sufficient to prevent hangs due to unforeseen circumstances. This would prevent HMCs...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

DS8K Should Be Intelligent Enough to Compare Source and Target Data for Remote Copies

When a relationship between a source and target system is accidentally lost, the DS8K must re-copy all the data. Instead the DS8K should be able to compare the source and target data so that only changed data or missing structures are copied. This...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

DS8K Metromirror Recovery Method

In order to quickly recovery a metromirror relationship (at 800KM) the copy sets had to be switched to Global Copy Mode and then Switched back once resynched. This should not be an undocumented recovery method. This should be automatic behavior fr...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Secure LCU from PPRC Target

I would like to be able to keep a volume(s) from being used for a PPRC target. I would prefer it to be protected at the LCU/LSS level. Since there is no user associated with a PPRC target, resource groups do not apply. I want to be able to protect...
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Add SNMP V3 support for events/traps in HMC

Hello, we are implementing monitoring of SNMP events in WWAO focal point and seems it's possible to setup trap in HMC (DS8950F) using V2 only but customer would like to have V3 due to security reasons.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Enrich REST APIs for DS/8000 machines

Support of cluster related functionalities in API interface. chclusterlsclustermkclusterrmclustershowcluster
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

more volumes on DS8000

Currently, only 65280 volumes are possible in DS8000, due to the LSS/LCU concept. When in a FlashCopy relation, this is cut in half practically.Increase this somehow so that well more (e.g. over 200,000) volumes are possible.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration