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IBM DS8000

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S3 Object Storages compatible with Transparent Cloud Tiering

We're implementing the Transparent Cloud Tiering for a Mainframe environment and customer would like to use other on-prem solutions of Object Storage, different of TS7700 or COS, to store data. Customer would like to use: - Hitachi HCP - DellEMC E...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

RestAPI access to ESG information provided by 'show su' CLI command.

Many clients are required to report on ESG/energy use in their data centers. This would provide a way to collect this data in an automated way.
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Adding options to loading DSCLI(DS Command Line Interface)

Loading the DSCLI code from Windows/IBM i requires Java 8 or newer plus using the ftp protocol. When the company has removed the use of Oracle Java and replace with another version of Java for the company to use, Second, company has block the use ...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 3 Future consideration

Retain a backup of Copy Services Manager installer file, when CSM was upgraded via DS CLI installsoftware process

During DS8000 HMC reload or upgrade, CSM is back-leveled if the Customer had previously upgraded to a higher level, using the installsoftware process. The installsoftware process removes the CSM installer file upon successful completion, making it...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Install ICS through Customer-Code-Load

This is an enhancement request of Customer-Code-Load of DS8000 R9.3 and later. My understanding is that currently there is no way to choose an ICS through Customer-Code-Load GUI. (If there is a higher level of bundle, some ICSs are selected aut...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Data integrity check per dasd volume

Right now, data integrity is very very important in all IT systems. Very often, we would perform dasd volume copy in daily BAU or in system upgrade steps. We need to have a easy to use, straight forward and fast method to compare the data in 2 das...
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Show zHyperlink performance details in DS8K GUI

Would be helpful in monitoring DS8K performance or in case of incident handling.
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Provide Notification When PPRC link failure rate is high on all PPRC paths

We recently had a WAN issue where one of the circuits was experiencing very high packet loss for carrier A. Even though there was a second healthy circuit provided by carrier B, the failure rate was so high on carrier A's circuit that all PPRC pat...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Possibility to choose which events are send to external sylsog server /CLI command enhancement

At the moment, we can send logs to an external server. It contains some information as listed in the manual - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ds8900/9.3.3?topic=configuring-syslog-server. I would like to be able to select which events need to be sent ...
9 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Request for managing Copy functions in the DS GUI

We have several customers Open / IBMi / zOS who use mirrored DS8000 and who currently use the Old GUI for management of the Mirroring and FlashCopy.CSM is economically not an option for them.
over 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

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