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IBM DS8000

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Request for DS8K GUI to show logically occupied in comparison to physical occupied capacity in dashboard

Enhancement request for DS8K GUI to especially show in particular the logically occupied capacity also at first glance, and in comparison to the physically used. The Dashboard should already outline whether and how much is overprovisioned.The Dash...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

LCP : Dynamic Management (increase and decrease) of Safeguarded Capacity

This idea would benefit all IBM z customers who are using, or who are considering implementing Logical Corruption Protection (aka z Cyber Vault) of data hosted on DS8000 storage subsystems. It would be of particular value to large installations wh...
almost 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

DS8000 ScG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity

When a SG backup volume runs out of Virtual Capacity, have the DS8K automatically increase the Virtual Capacity Multiplier with 1 for that volume.The increase by 1 should be sufficient I think, I do not think this should be configurable. However, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 3 Not under consideration

include space-efficient storage display in the lsextpool command

The space efficient storage is not taken in account in the lsextpool command. I recently wanted to create volume on a DS8K, the lsextpool showed me it was 77% full, but the command ended for a lack of non-ESE extent in the extpool. It took me some...
2 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

optimize output in the microcode "health check" panel in the DSGUI

We moved from 89.32.40.0 to 89.33.35.0 using the internal microcode function of the DS GUI.Everything works fine, but we think that the UX and GUI output of the "System Health Check" could be visualy better. So you can better understand what you s...
about 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Add the IBM Case Number to the DS8K Event when a Call Home is performed

By having the Case Number in the Events logs, this saves time involved with logging on to the DS8K HMC to obtain the Case Number. It can also be useful in identifying situations where AOS is not operating correctly (no Case Number generated).
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Functionality already exists

Add HMC's IP address when creating certificate signing request on DS8K GUI

Currently the certificate signing request created via the DS8K's GUI only allow to have the HMC's DNS in it. If we could add the HMC's IP then both the connection via the DNS and the IP would be secure after the certificate is imported.
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Enrich REST APIs for DS/8000 machines

Support of cluster related functionalities in API interface. chclusterlsclustermkclusterrmclustershowcluster
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under 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...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

S3 target on DS8

Consolidation of infrastructure (storage) on to a single platform
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration