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IBM DS8000

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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 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 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...
almost 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...
almost 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 4 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

DS8886 should allow query of FICON/FCP connectivity

We have a large number of IBM DS8886's in our environment and frequently have connectivity issues for our FICON and FCP ports. Unfortunately, we do not have any visibility within the DS8886 to the connection (if any) at the other end of the cable....
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Limitation on DS8880

IBM team, I need to see if I can request an enhancement for the DS8880. As you know, we have the Atos North American Mainframe Hub (NAMH). We ran into an issue that I have PMR 59316,227,000 opened for an issue that we are having for our client 7-1...
over 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Avoid that port 1750 be enabled again during a code update

Following code update from R7.4.1 to R7.5.1, the customer realized thatport 1750 had been enabled again - most likely because such a code update, as of Appendix C of the code installation instructions to "to upgradeHMC Base Code only to a new 790 ...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

Additional ID's for Storage Manager that are "Read Only"

A Financial Services Market client would like to make a formal request for additional ID's to Storage Manager. Currently the ID the client has allows a user to change / delete logical configuration; change / stop /start replication; and even power...
about 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

Support READ Only access for PPRC Secondary volumes

In ZDL solution design, a basic requirement is to read the DB2 active log from PPRC target volumes. Especially for the long leg MTPPRC secondary volumes can be accessed READ ONLY by another Sysplex.
over 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered