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IBM DS8000

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ICKDSF FLASHCPY support for PAV on z/VSE

System: ICKDSF under z/VSEActor: Restore the original function of ICKDSF FLASHCPY with PAV enabled. Descrition: The enabling of PAV under z/VSE will make the IO from ICKDSF to go through the alias address. There is no way to bypass this address se...
almost 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Syslog capability to capture all internal/external commands executed to external log collection location

request is to add syslog type function (similar to SVC) that records commands executed by all users (including dial-in support) and make that syslog viewable to an external source (log server) for review
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Security logging for IBM Storage (TS7700, TS4500, FS9150, DS8K)

Need the ability to capture all LOGON/LOGOFF and update-related functions within each of the Storage solutions to provide compliance with our internal Security Event Logging Standards (ISELS). This will require the ability to externalize these log...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

DS8K GUI identification of used ports on IO cards

Problem description: no indication of what ports are in use on back of DS8KCurrent workaround: Be extra careful - check flogi on SAN
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

We need two user LAN ports on a DS8000 HMC

BTMU, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, wants to have two user LAN ports on a HMC of DS8000.
over 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Visibility to volume and LSS use of space for ESE volume

We are just starting to implement thinly provisioned ESE volumes and have identified some deficiencies in the lack of granularity in the visibility to the amount of space utilized. We do have a way to look at the space used from z/OS we don't have...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

DS8886 Physical Design

We had been facing issues to propose DS8886 in the country, especially on the 46U height rack configuration where some of data centers cannot meet the height requirements. While DS8886 has the 40U configuration option via RPQ, again it triggers ot...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Reserve/Release Support for HyperSwap

MUFG Bank, the former name was BTMU, would like to use z/OS HyperSwap among multiple SYSPLEXes.And MUFG Bank has a shared volumes between multiple SYSPLEXes, it is a strong requirement to maintain it. To achieve the objective, MUFG Bank need the f...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 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

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...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

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