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IBM DS8000

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    DSCLI updated to work with Azul JAVA

    Oracle are looking to charge customers for JAVA utilities. https://redresscompliance.com/decoding-oracle-java-licensing-java-licensing-changes-2023/#:~:text=entire%20employee%20population.-,Did%20Oracle%20change%20the%20Java%20license%3F,old%20PRO...
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Enhancements for DS8000 REST API

    We are using REST API to get configuration data out from the DS8000 storage system.We would like to have more API request types to get also security informations from DS8000.We need to know the active authentication policy with properties, informa...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Future consideration

    Fiserv is looking for MFA support with Microsoft Entra ID on IBM DS8900 storage arrays.

    Fiserv is standardizing on Microsoft Entra ID for MFA and asking all of their storage vendors to certify Entra ID with their products.
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Add 'setcontactinfo' to DSCLI on DS8900 series

    Implement a command to set and update call home contact information on DS8900 series DSCLI. Update Name, Email, Phone, Address, etc. Similar to chsacfg command on HMCs
    about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    DS8XXXX Improve How Fibre Channel Port Location is Displayed in GUI

    Under a previous RFE it was requested to add in the physical location of an IO Port to the New DS8 GUI in the Fibre Channel Ports view:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=121398 In the old GUI when we went to c...
    over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Allow for the concurrent creation/existence of several recovery sets from a given set of SGC captures

    Our use case: a daily backup to tape of SGC restores for our 4 production environments. The largest one takes 10 hours to background copy before we can create another restore which is longer than the time to backup to tape without the background c...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    The object storage of DS8000 TCT output can be used for FlashCopy target

    In Japan z/OS market, DFSMShsm gets only 10% shares, so DS8000 Transparent Cloud Tiering will not be considered. My customer hopes to utilize DS8k TCT function just like as FlashCopy or Concurrent Copy via DFSMSdss Copy command . Restoring from ob...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Include Custom Roles in LDAP Export

    Small ask on DS8 configuration. When setting up security on DS8s we create custom roles in addition to the administrator and monitor roles. When we export the LDAP Remote Authentication configuration to import into another DS8 the custom roles are...
    over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Safeguard Copy to S3 storage

    Allow the ability to schedule safeguard copies off site to S3 storage either on another platform or in the cloud.
    about 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

    Add REstApi to query all volumes on a DS8K

    You can only have a list of volumes if you gives the pool_id or LSS_id. Is-it possible to have a Rest Api to have a list of all volumes on a DS8K without to do looping query on LSS or pool_id ?
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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