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IBM DS8000

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Erase on Scratch (Hardware)

Last year we were directed to use Erase on Scratch(All) on our z/OS Systems. Testing was done on our Development Systems, but due to long elapsed times for Batch jobs, Erase on Scratch was turned off. We have a mix of DS8886's and DS8870 DASD Subs...
about 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Support more than 32 active GM Sessions

Increase the maximum supported active GM sessions in DS8880 from current hardware limitation of 32 active sessions to at least 64 active sessions . For example the IBM SVC support up to 256 - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S101...
almost 8 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

DS8K - Dual Control for operational activities

Add Dual Control function to any operational activities on the DS8K HMC to increase resilience and protect from insider attacks
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8K - Single Sign ON (SSO) with OIDC

Add SSO support via OIDC to externalize authentication and enable multi factor authentication on the DS8K HMC
5 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Future consideration

Develop or update API to show compression information in GEN10 for pools and devices

This information will help to monitor the growth of the data in the DS8K. It's actually availlable in DSCLI but not in API.
6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DS8K - DSCLI as a docker image

It would be great if IBM can offer the DSCLI as a docker image for zCX. As s390x architecture is already supported, it would be great to have this available as a docker image to reduce the overhead to manually install it. As the standalone DSCLI i...
7 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

If an SSID participating in a PPRC relationship needs to be changed, DSGUI/DSCLI should provide a warning when attempting a chlcu for an LCU participating in a PPRC relationship.

We encountered a hardware error starting a GM session where we had duplicate SSIDs between the source and target PPRC LSSs. To resolve this, we used the GUI to change the SSID on the target LSS. Although the change was successful it would have bee...
8 months ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Add a nickname parameter to the DSCLI commands mklcu, lslcu, chlcu and showlcu

The additional field can be very useful in multi-customer environments to add a comment (e.g. customer name) for each lcu.
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Enable DS8K range and TS7700 range to interface with Cyberark (password vault)

Currently we (Barclays) use Cyberark as a password repository. We store all our system userids (Admin/Customer) in cyberark and they are meant to be system managed i.e cyberark will change the passwords for those userids without manual interventio...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

DSCLI for zVM

Hi, Working for Kyndryl France, Resiliency Services on z Mainframe, we resize our dasd arrays very very often.I think it could be nice to have the opportunity to use DSCLI on z/VM rather than a browser or .bat on windows. Be able to develop a rexx...
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

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