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IBM DS8000

Changing SGC behavior when pool run out of space

Customer run SGC session on DR site (Global Mirror target site).When extend pool used for SGC Capacity reached 90% usage the system starts to roll off SGC backups on VOLUME BASE to free up space. In this situation ALL backups failed and not recove...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

DS8000 API - Enhanced Event filter

The current event endpoint does not provide a way to filter out inactive errors and warnings. Neither does the response indicate whether the event is active/inactive. There is no way to poll for currently relevant issues. This filter is available ...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

DS8000 Volume groups can't be manage in GUI

IBM DS8000 Storage server use Volume Groups for managing connectivity to Open servers (including IBMi). In the new GUI Volume Groups not presented.Old (previous) GUI removed from V9.So only way to manage VG with CLI. It will be nice to insert VG m...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 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...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

DS8000 Host Adapter - fcping support

Provide fcping capability on DS8K host adapters similar to what existed on 8Gb HAs. Below is a comment from IBM Development REF PMR 23506,082,000 regarding ECHO ELS handling in newer HAs. "It looks like it is a difference on how the ECHO ELS is ha...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

DS8 Create Volumes GUI from Host View Should Allow Space Efficient Volumes

From the DS8880 GUI, when we go to Create Volumes from a host in the Hosts or Volumes by Host screen, we cannot choose Space Efficient volumes when creating a volume. There is no option for it in the normal volume creation window and the Custom vo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

REST api provides OOS track counts for remote copy and flashcopy pairs

The REST api provides Remote Copy and FlashCopy query capability. It does not provide the out-of-sync track counts for the relationships. We use automation that relies on queries of remote copy relationships and requires the current OOS track coun...
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

DS8880 needs to support nested LDAP groups

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's spread across our enterprise along with some older DS8870's. As of a couple of weeks ago they were all setup to use LDAP for user logon authentication. However, without our knowledge our administrators enable...
about 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

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 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

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...
over 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 Delivered

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